Contents Facing the Economic Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: A New Introduction to The Jobless Future The Jobless Future Preface Introduction Part I. Technoscience and Joblessness 1. The New Knowledge Work 2. Technoculture and the Future of Work 3. The End of Skill? 4. The Computerized Engineer and Architect 5. The Professionalized Scientist Part II. Contours of a New World 6.

Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals 7. Unions and the Future of Professional Work 8. A Taxonomy of Teacher Work Part III. Beyond the Catastrophe 9. The Cultural Construction of Class: Knowledge and the Labor Process 10. Quantum Measures: Capital Investment and Job Reduction 11. The Jobless Future? Afterword Notes Index.