New Ways of Working
The future will Dring basic changes in how. when and where people work. Sophisticated telecommunications systems could eliminate the need to travel to work and enable an electronic recreation of the 'cottage industries' of pre-industrial times. But can working at home fulfil the same social role as today's jobs? Both the distinctions between home and working life, and work and employment, may have to be redefined if job shortages force more people to rely on the state for their livelihood, or to create their own work in the unofficial ' black' economy.
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