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Rethinking Work
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How the second industrial revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm
Companion site to the PBS series on work. Come share your thoughts, frustrations, and solutions to "The Workday that Wouldn't Die." Plus, learn about alternative work schedules and compelling discussions on the workday.
http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood
Advertising, globalization, immigration, and corporations induce us to work too much to the detriment of family life, and combined with genetic engineering this urge to produce more could result in humans becoming almost robotic workers.
http://reviews.20m.com
The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and implementation strategies.
http://www.ecoplan.org/new-work/nw_index.htm
Nonprofit educational, support and political advocacy group, as well as a resource clearinghouse, started by "Generation-X" people who share an interest in working together to generate viable alternatives to wage slavery.
http://www.whywork.org
Rethinking work for a new life stage? New forms of work such as mentoring can be very rewarding. Includes ideas and links.
http://votech.about.com/library/weekly/aa122199a.htm
Mobility - both physical and social is enhanced by new transportation and communications technologies and by the new media. The emergence of alternative patterns of work are the result.
http://samvak.tripod.com/nm065.html
Online journal about new ways of working.
http://www.flexibility.co.uk/
Research, practical consultancy and constructive advocacy to make workplaces more effective, more successful and more fulfilling.
http://www.theworkfoundation.com/index.jsp
A website based on the book Ishmael by Michael Quinn which questions why people work hard to retire when the are old. In-depth reading to find the solution to the problem.
http://www.readishmael.com/
How to make teams work better over long distances using new technology to increase efficiency and reduce travel costs. Features, videos and slides by Fuurist Dr Patrick Dixon.
http://www.globalchange.com/vmanagement.htm
A charity offering information and consultancy to individuals, trade unions and companies. News, resources, events, contact details, membership details, links.
http://www.new-ways.co.uk
A marketing and PR firm focusing exclusively on the human resources industry with particular emphasis on work/life, EAP and related services.
http://www.fishervista.com
Analyzes the Disguised Unemployment Problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are wasteful, and squander an opportunity for root reform. Presents the case for income supports, and the partial separation of incomes from current employment.
http://users.rcn.com/jonmarin/downsized.htm