Working Harder Isn't Working

by Bruce O'Hara

Book Overview

In the 1960s, futurists predicted that advances in technology and increased automation would bring about an Age of Leisure and Abundance. Technology has performed its miracle: today's workers can produce twice as much per hour as their 1950s counterparts. So why are we told that we must work longer and harder ? for less money ? to survive in today's "competitive economy"? What's gone wrong? Massive unemployment, soaring taxes, runaway debt, environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921586337
• ISBN13: 9780921586333
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"