The end of the job

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The end of work (full title: The end of work and its future , English original title: The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era ) is a book published in 1995 by the US Economist Jeremy Rifkin . The non-fiction book was a worldwide bestseller .

Core theses

In the work, Rifkin argues that the world’s unemployment would increase massively as a result of the automation and spread of information technology in the world of work, while in the United States in particular, several million jobs in manufacturing , retail , agriculture and service sectors will be made redundant by the digital revolution .

The disappearance of work

Using economic data, he shows that this development will continue in the future. Rifkin expected that by 2010 only 12% of working people would be employed in industrial production. By 2020 it would only be 2%.

This decline also gives rise to the question of how to earn a living for employees and workers who have been made redundant by rationalization and the processes involved . It proves that although the upgrading of the employability of those affected can bring relief in some areas , this usually only has the desired effect for a minority of the old workforce in the event of a concrete restructuring - the majority of those affected find themselves in long-term unemployment .

The rise of the third sector

At the same time as the market economy and the public sector collapsed , Rifkin argues, a third sector, the nonprofit sector , would emerge and establish itself: volunteer-based , community-based service organizations that create new jobs with public support, for example to deal with urban decay stop or do social work . Rifkin sees great potential here.

To finance this third sector, Rifkin suggests the example of the United States before, the military budget to reduce the long term, a tax to be levied on non-essential goods and services, as well as with money from federal and country households a Basic Income rather than pure welfare -Services finance.

Reception and criticism

In the course of the reception of the English original edition, a major point of criticism was that Rifkin's contributions to the discourse about the end of gainful employment were based on a technological determinism that does not sufficiently appreciate the opportunities offered by so-called technocapitalism. The philosopher Richard David Precht called the description of the third sector "wishful thinking".

Expenses (selection)

The End of Work: Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era. Putnam Publishing Group 1995
The end of work and its future , with an afterword by Martin Kempe. Translated from the English by Thomas Steiner. Campus-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1995
The end of work and its future: new concepts for the 21st century. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16971-9 .

Reviews

Renard Teipelke: Book review on Jeremy Rifkin "The end of work (and its future)". GRIN, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-31430-0 .

Web links

The end of work and its future on Researchgate

Individual evidence

^ Entry in the DNB catalog
↑ Jeremy Rifkin: The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era . Putnam Publishing Group, 1995, ISBN 0-87477-779-8 .
↑ Georg Cremer: Germany is more just than we think: An inventory, CH Beck, 2018, p. 240 [1]
↑ ^a ^b Economy and Society , Issues 3–4, 2005 [2]
↑ Jeremy Rifkin : The End of Labor. ISBN 3-596-16971-2 , pp. 205-208.
↑ ^a ^b Interview ( Memento from May 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) in: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 29, 2005.
↑ Ellen Schwartz, Suzanne Stoddard: Taking Back Our Lives in the Age of Corporate Dominance, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000, p. 145 [3]
↑ ^a ^b Richard David Precht: Anna, the school and the love of God: The betrayal of the education system to our children, Goldmann Verlag, 2013, page 142
↑ Werner Bonefeld (Ed.): Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics . Autonomedia ,, 2003, ISBN 1-57027-133-X .

[1] Entry in the DNB catalog

[2] Jeremy Rifkin: The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era . Putnam Publishing Group, 1995, ISBN 0-87477-779-8 .

[3] Georg Cremer: Germany is more just than we think: An inventory, CH Beck, 2018, p. 240 [1]

[Wirtschaft_und_Gesellschaft-4] Economy and Society , Issues 3–4, 2005 [2]

[Rifkin2-5] Jeremy Rifkin : The End of Labor. ISBN 3-596-16971-2 , pp. 205-208.

[interview-6] Interview ( Memento from May 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) in: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 29, 2005.

[7] Ellen Schwartz, Suzanne Stoddard: Taking Back Our Lives in the Age of Corporate Dominance, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000, p. 145 [3]

[precht-8] Richard David Precht: Anna, the school and the love of God: The betrayal of the education system to our children, Goldmann Verlag, 2013, page 142

[Bonefeld_2003-9] Werner Bonefeld (Ed.): Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics . Autonomedia ,, 2003, ISBN 1-57027-133-X .