Job-Tech

The Technological Revoluation and Its Impact on Society

Introduction

• Acknowledgments
• Preface by Sharon Hogan and Wanda White
• Introduction by the editors

Part One: Plenary Sessions

• The End of Work
  • Jeremy Rifkin
  • Jonathn King
  • Sally Lerner
  • Luis Rodriguez
• The Future Before Us
  • Thomas DeFanti
  • Don Holt
  • Nancy John
  • Jonathan King
• The Morning After
  • Richard Hatcher
  • Dan Lane
  • John Betancur
  • General Baker
• Moving Forward: Local Initiatives
  • Dave Ranney
  • Lourdes Silva
  • Orrin Williams
  • Phil Nyden
• Moving Forward: Seizing the Future
  • Carl Davidson
  • Michael Warr
  • Sally Lerner
  • Nelson Peery

Part Two: Workshop Summaries

• The New Biology
• Robots and Political Economy
• Access to Information
• Printing and Publishing In the Digital Age
• New Technology and Our Workplace
• What Happened to Steel?
• Work and the Global economy
• Will Getting the Training Mean Getting the Job?
• Access to Education
• Racism and the Violence Initiative
• Prisons, Police and Their Technology
• What New Jobs Should be Created?
• Who is Deciding?
• Fighting Back Against the New Poverty
• Developing Communities
• Chicago, From Hog Butcher to What We Envision
• Youth, Culture and Survival in a Jobless World

Part Three: Appendices

• A: Course Outline
• B: Chronology of the MIT and Midwest Job-Tech Conferences
• C: Program of the MIT Technology and Employment Conference (Boston)
• D: Program of the Midwest Technology and Employment Conference (Chicago)
• E: How to Conduct a Virtual Conference: Our Experiences
• Name Index
• About the Editors
• Job-Tech On-line