The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era

Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 1995 - Self-Help - 352 pages

The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 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 its 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 our candidates and our country need to understand the employment challenges-and the hopes-facing us in the century ahead.

What people are saying

Review: The End of Work

User Review  - Luis Fonseca - Goodreads

One of the first and best books so far on the complete redesign of our working environment. Jeremy insights on how the world has evolved much faster than the systems and mindset that support our jobs ...

Review: The End of Work

User Review  - Luke Echo - Goodreads

Rifkin must have had some very busy researchers on this one. It reads like a compendium of statistics and anecdotes on everything and anything. Its also very boring. The main issues other than boredom ...

About the author

Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The Biotech Century, The Age of Access, and The Hydrogen Economy. A fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program, he is the president of The Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era
• Author: Jeremy Rifkin
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 1995
• ISBN: 1585423130, 9781585423132
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success