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[Note that the contact person for the FUTUREWORK list is not Ken Ehrensal
but rather Sally Lerner
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 10:42:05 -0500
From: "Mr. Kenneth N. Ehrensal"
---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > New FUTUREWORK List December 19, 1994 > > FUTUREWORK: RE-DESIGNING WORK,INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION > > This is the launch of a new listserv, FUTUREWORK, an international e-mail > forum for discussion of how to deal with the new realities created by > economic globalization and technological change. Basic changes are > occurring in the nature of work in all industrialized countries. > Information technology has hastened the advent of the global economic > village. Jobs that workers at all skills levels in developed countries once > held are now filled by smart machines and/or in low-wage countries. > Contemporary rhetoric proclaims the need for ever-escalating competition, > leaner and meaner ways of doing business, a totally flexible workforce, > jobless growth. > > What would a large permanent reduction in the number of secure, > adequately-waged jobs mean for communities, families and individuals? This > is not being adequately discussed, nor are the implications for income > distribution and education. Even less adequately addressed are questions of > how to take back control of these events, how to turn technological change > into the opportunity for a richer life rather than the recipe for a > bladerunner society. > > Our objective in creating this listserv is to involve as many people as > possible in re-designing for the new realities. We hope that this list will > help to move these issues to a prominent place on public and political > agendas worldwide. > The FUTUREWORK listserv is hosted by Communications for a Sustainable > Future (CSF) located at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As the > coordinator of FUTUREWORK, I invite you become part of our effort. > FUTUREWORK is an unmoderated and open list, so all messages posted to the > list will be redistributed around the world. > > To subscribe to FUTUREWORK, send the message below to > listserv@csf.colorado.edu > > SUB FUTUREWORK Yourfirstname Yourlastname > > To post diectly to the list (once you are subscribed), send your message to: > > FUTUREWORK@csf.colorado.edu > or FW@csf.colorado.edu > > Together with others who are interested in addressing the new realities, > I look foward to meeting you on the FUTUREWORK list. > > Sally Lerner > University of Waterloo > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > lerner@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca ```
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