Jeremy Rifkins The End of Work :: Jeremy Rifkin The End of Work

Jeremy Rifkins The prohibit of WorkIndividuals tend to develop a false sense of credentials concerning thecertainty of their jobs. After working for an organization for fifteen or moreyears, it is difficult for them to understand that their employers may no longerneed their service. Jeremy Rifkin wrote The ending of Work in order to warn peopleabout what he foresees may be happening to the planetary labour force because of arapid increase in the use of automation in the workplace. He identifies what hebelieves be causes of the problems which we are currently facing within the organizational structure along with some potential solutions. Rifkins ideasmay be pertinent to most peoples lives including ours. The reactions of sixcurrently employed persons to Rifkins message will be included in this text.These professionals include a technical manager, a doojigger store owner, acashier for Marriot food services, a Residence-Life Staff Coordinator, a Part-Time Credit Card Service Ass istant and an Assembler for an electric Switch-Gear Manufacturing Company.Rifkin observes that the main problem of mass global employment in boththe private and public sectors is caused by the continuing advances in engineering science and its impacts on organizations, its structure and design and its groom effect on the global labour force. In particular, organizations areusing the image of re-engineering and replacing humane labour with laboursaving technologies. Rifkin gives us a better misgiving of the developmentof the cause of this problem by examining the three industrial revolutions. Inthe first industrial revolution, Rifkin identifies steam power as the major beam of lightused by industrial and manufacturing sectors. In the second industrialrevolutions the electrical innovation effected the manufacturing, agriculturaland transport industries by further cut the global labour force.Unlike the past, two industrial revolutions where industrialtechnologies transpose the p hysical power of human labour, the third revolution(The Information Age), at present, is contributing new computer based technologywhich are involving into sentiment machines. These thinking machines will evolveto the extent that eventual the human mental capacity will be replaced in all economicactivities. In particular, advancements in computer technology includingparallel processing and artificial intelligence (robots) are going to cause alarge number of white trinity workers to be redundant in the near future.Furthermore as a result of advancement in the information and telecommunicationstechnologies, organizations are using the concept of re-engineering torestructure their organizations to make them more computer friendly. As adirect result of this, training employees in multi-level skills, shortening andsimplifying production and distribution processes and streamliningadministration. sensation example of this is the global auto industry which is