Speculates on future trends, such as industrial and work force productivity, labor supply, the need for and development of high technology skills, rising educational level and economic status of the work force, labor-management relations, displacement of workers in particular sectors, and the further feminization of poverty. (GC)

Based on the numbers published by the U. S. Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other sources, the book examines what has happened to work in America during the present century, analyzes the attempts to change the nature of that work, and makes projections about the future of work. Though the study reveals far-reaching changes…