The End Of Work

Global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s. Technologies which have brought miraculous improvements in efficiency and productivity have also slashed the numbers employed in manufacturing and agriculture, while the service sector is quite unable to take up the slack. While a tiny elite of 'knowledge workers' - scientists, entrpreneurs and consultants - will still be in demand, most jobs are disappearing fast, resulting in the creation of a morose 'underclass', caught between apathy and criminal violence.