Introduction

Hello,

Here I will keep you posted about the project as it advances. At this moment I am reading on the subject as much as I can. Eventually I will meet people related to the subject matter which we could say almost everyone! I'll have to limit myself to the idea of getting a diverse view of what it means to work or not...

There will be quite a good amount of references at the end of the book. I still wonder if I should numbered my references after quotations. I do not wish this to be too painful to read and as accessible as possible.

Jeremy Rifkin

When Jeremy Rifkin first published The End of Work some 20 years ago, there were so many discussions around the book that I couldn't help but wonder if I had to read it! I felt I knew quite thoroughly the subject matter, especially with my kind of activities.

It took me all those years to decide to bring it out of the library and see for myself because now it becomes a must in order to document myself with my book project. Although the statistics he presents are now historical, the later part of the book is still relevant but I want to go further.

At about the same time Rifkin published that book, the New York Times ran an exceptional series also dealing with the subject for a whole week on its front pages: The Downsizing of America.

At the times tens of thousands of good paying jobs were lost throughout the United States mainly because with technology and reengineering big corporations were rethinking the way they did business in order to maximize profits. It happened that by doing so millions of people were left on the sidewalks.

The Series at a Glance

Sunday, March 3, 1996: The Price of Jobs Lost

On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties

Pop Culture: Extremes but Little Reality 

Monday, March 4, 1996: The Company

One Happy Family, No Longer

Tuesday, March 5, 1996: The Family

White Collar: Holes Where the Dignity Used to Be

Blue Collar: More Than Money, They Miss the Pride 

Wednesday, March 6, 1996: The Community

Pulled Apart, Scrambling to Regroup 

Thursday, March 7, 1996: The College Class

In the Class of '70, Wounded Winners

For the Class of '96, Pressure to Focus, and Fast 

Friday, March 8, 1996: Politics

The Politics of Layoffs: In Search of a Message

And How Do Unions Fit Into All This? 

Saturday, March 9, 1996: The Future

A Search for Answers To Avoid the Layoffs

On Wall Street: For Richer, for Poorer?

The series was later published in book form

So when Mr Trump talks about immigrants taking over American jobs, he seems to forget that the enemy is within and that his friends on Wall Street and corporate Amercica are the first culprits of what was to come. By naming all of them in his cabinet one can wonder what he wishes to achieve.