ERIC Number: ED095419
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 188
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The Future of Work.
Best, Fred, Ed.
The anthology addresses itself to some of the major issues concerning the evolving nature of work within advanced technical and affluent societies. Part 1 presents an essay which briefly reviews the evolutionary history of work. Part 2 seeks to define human needs as the goals of work and evaluative changing need priorities under conditions of affluence. Part 3 provides speculations about the specific daily conditions and goals of work in the future, touching on the issues of technology and jobs, organizational conditions, work and leisure, education, and income. The fourth and final part presents four overall visions of possible alternative conditions of work in the future. The predictions of the book are based on a faith in a human need to seek fulfillment of one's total capacities through the activity of work. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Advantaged, Education, Employment, Futures (of Society), Humanism, Individual Development, Job Satisfaction, Leisure Time, Motivation, Need Gratification, Organizational Development, Prediction, Psychological Needs, Self Actualization, Social Change, Social Psychology, Technological Advancement, Work Environment
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 ($6.95)
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