Table of contents
Joblessness, pain, power, pathology and promise
Dan ButtsCorporate downsizing has destroyed millions of well‐paying jobs just in the USA. The psychological, medical, and social costs are staggering. Families are fragmented, communities…
A postmodern spiritual future for work
Jerry Biberman, Michael WhittyContends that predictions of the end of work as we know it, and a bleak jobless future, as we head into the twenty‐first century, derive from a modernist paradigm of work ‐ a…
The future of work in the digital diaspora: economic restructuring and education
David N. CooperThe microprocessor and digital technologies have spawned an economic revolution enabling the global customization of mass production and services in close synchronization with the…
Work, authority and participation: the scenario of circular organizing
A. Georges L. RommeExplores a scenario for how work can be organized in a circular manner. Outlines two tendencies in work relations: a return to authoritarian governance of the workplace, and at…
Work, gender and the future
Øystein Gullvåg HolterContrasts the ideology of “productionism” with the rising importance of people‐oriented work (“reproduction”) and the struggle for equal gender status. Examines economic factors…
Improving organizational health by addressing organizational trauma
Enid Hilton BrownOrganizations are searching for new methodologies to address their biggest concern for the future ‐ their health. In a world of risk, danger, and corporate diseases, survival may…
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