The Future of Work

For this assignment, you need to write an essay on the future of work. The purpose of this essay is to think about what, in your view, is wrong with work today and how it could possibly be changed for the better. It is a visionary essay. Its starting point is the empirical reality of todays world, and its endpoint is what it could be. To connect the two, you have to identify the ills of todays world, the means to cure them and be aware of the conditions under which change could be brought about. Envisioning a different world of work is not some kind of airy-fairy exercise or escape from reality; it is about laying out possible roadmaps that carefully consider the landscape that needs to be navigated to reach the goal of a better world of work. Remember the textbook concentrates on Canada, and so should your facts.

Text book: Krahn, H. J., Hughes, K. D., & Lowe, G. S. (2021). Work, Industry, and Canadian Society (8th ed.). Nelson Publishing.

Aspects that you should address are the following:

Inequality and insecurity
Organization of work and the question of post-industrialism
Globalization of work
The essay should answer the following questions:

What is wrong with work today?
How should work be distributed and organized in the future?
Which are the means to realize your vision of work?
Who is applying those means and who might try to stop their application?

Professor Notes
For this assignment, it is still necessary to provide facts, not only about the three
aspects the instructions ask you to examine but about your proposed solutions as well.
Keep in mind that when we speak of insecure or precarious work, we dont mean physically unsafe work, but work that is not likely to last very long.
– Likewise when suggesting possible improvements, it is not enough to simply mention them. You have to provide whatever factual information you can showing their efficacy.
-Keep in mind that the textbook already discusses possible solutions. Simply suggesting better employment equity laws or better collective bargaining laws will not get a good mark if you dont take into account what the textbook already says about those issues.
Citations:
It is vital students provide proper citations for the remaining assignments. The general rule is that every paragraph, with the possible exception of the introduction and the conclusion, should have at least one citation. If your paragraph does not need a citation, one may wonder how important it is to your larger assignment.
It would therefore be helpful to cite specific pages and quote specific passages. Although APA citation often involves abstracts, none of your assignments should include one.
A complete Bibliography must be given at the end.

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