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

The book is a bit dated but the problem outlined lives on with a vengence.

This book makes the government employment look stupid as usual as they cannot beat the forces of unemployment around the globe

This hard to find book explains how most forms of human work are now being replaced by machines, which begs for an urgent r[love]ution. Instead of demanding work, we have to demand a fair distribution of the infinite wealth we are now able to produce.

An amazing book

This may have been one of the top 1-2 books I've read this year - which needs to be contextually framed by the fact that I typically have time to read no more than 4-5 books each year anyway. Maybe I'm just "extra good" at the selectivity of the books that I choose, but this one was really quite good. It explores the multiple dimensions of increased productivity, work, an increasing population - and the continued and rapid encroachment of technology in the displacement of workers. Most of those workers up to now have been more production-oriented, but will the rise of computers and technology in the future signal the beginning of the loss of jobs for knowledge workers? Given that this book was written close to 15 years ago - it was prescient in some of its predictions, and especially telling in light of the recent (and persistent) recession - and where 1 in 5 low wage jobs were lost in the recession, but in the recovery, low wage jobs have represented close to 3 in 5 jobs created. Read this book, but don't plan on having a good night's sleep on the day you finish it (unless you're lucky enough to already be retired).