The End of Work :: Literary Analysis, Jeremy Rifkin

The stuff and ideological conditions of our society is important to understand our social situation. This essay outlines the material and ideological conditions and how it signifies our social situation. Material condition means production, exchange and the organization of society. Ideological condition means ideas that are common in society. This essay exit focus on the following reading The End of make believe by Jeremy Rifkin, Where the Wasteland Ends by Theodore Roszak, The Making of Economic Society by Robert Heilbroner and The Tyranny of Work by James W. Rinehart. The material conditions in our society are very important. The introduction of machines reduced the number workers in the workforce. The commodity was produced mainly by machines with a little help of humans. The engineering has developed which lead workplaces look into new ways in reducing cost and efficient products. In the Where the Wasteland Ends by Theodore Roszak it stated that knowledge grows and how tomorrows knowledge is enormous. Todays knowledge would always be the base for tommows knowledge. (Roszak,149) Todays pile know more than people in the past. This relates to the The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin article which states that the people in the past had their suffer knowledge of producing their own things for their own needs and than these workers had to make the products for otherwise people which than lead to inventing machines to get rid of the workers. This demonstrates the fact that the workers were the old knowledge and the machines are the new knowledge. As technology, in other words science grows new knowledge would develop and this would lead nows young generation to become smarter than the previous generation. The jobs that are present today in our society is related to technology and therefore the work people do shows what they are worth. If you have more knowledge on the recent technology you would have a higher value. (Rifkin, 17)In the The Making of Economic Society by Robert Heilbroner it mentions that in order for humans to earn their daily bread they must work. (Heilbroner,1) In our world, the well developed countries depend on other countries to provide them with their daily needs and other products. They do not make their products instead they broadcast materials in and out the country for their citizens to use. (Heilbroner, 3) Countries like U.