Reworking Work: Tough Times Ahead

Abstract

Business, financial, technological, economic, social, and political trends indicate an impending mass wave of structural unemployment rivaling that of the Great Depression within a decade. In this article, a dozen prophylactic and therapeutic remedies are suggested, all of which require a rethinking of socioeconomic policy, reevaluation of goals for the long-term future, and recognition that new policies must be approached as continuing, open-ended social experiments.