An analysis of the potentially catastrophic implications of the growing worldwide unemployment crisis explains how we can avoid economic collapse, create conditions for a new more humane social order, and redefine the role of the individual in the new technological society. Original. 30,000 first printing.

The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 American elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the technological revolution and understood it's implications for global employment: Jeremy Rifkin. The End Of Work is Jeremy Rifkin's most influential and important book. Now nearly ten years old, it has been updated for a new, post-New Economy era. Statistics and figures have been revised to take new trends into account. Rifkin offers a tough, compelling critique of the flaws in the techniques the government uses to compile employment statistics. The End Of Work is the book political candidates and countries need to understand the employment challenges - and the hopes - facing them in the century ahead.

Fascinating ... He poses real questions that we've spent too little time thinking about.