In the middle of a dark valley - prosperity and freedom at the end?
Summary of the materials on the history and future of labour
Contents: 20 miniatures
Foreword
Theses on the big picture
1. the ambivalence of human nature
2 Labour - a universal concept
3. epochs of production and lifestyles
4 The common thread: The history of productivity
5. 300,000 years of poaching - an early peaceful land of milk and honey?
6 Was the transition to agriculture a dead end?
7 The 5000 transformation: hierarchy, war, patriarchy
8. 250 years of capitalist market economy and mode of production
9. future of work: attractive or precarious?
10. working time - a good part of life?
11 The end of poverty - it's possible!
12. 5,000 years of patriarchy - a 'discontinued model'
13. 5,000 years of rule and the beginnings of democracy
14 From subservient scholarship to free science?
15th population - 20 or 2 billion people?
16. climate crash - the necessary planetary shock?
17 AI - our friend and helper?
18. end of scarcity?
19 Good work, prosperity and freedom
20. conclusion: The most important tasks in the 21st century
Structural data on the current global situation
Is humanity living in the Garden of Eden at the end of the 21st century or in a contaminated landscape of ruins? Both are conceivable and possible. Our hope is that we can still influence the direction. It is helpful to say goodbye to the molehill and take a global and historically broad view - at least of the last 5,000 years, the last 250 years and the next 100 years.
The foreword is followed in this volume by an abridged version of the matrix materials in 20 main topics. While the seven volumes of the materials primarily present the specific epochs of the work, this abridged version aims to link the historically broad view more closely with the perspectives of the next 100 years. However, the focus here is also on correctly summarising the empirical findings from the various research fields of archaeology, anthropology, economics, history and the social sciences - in particular the common thread of productivity development.
Published: June 2024
450 pages, 24 Euro
J.H.W. Dietz Verlag Nachf., Bonn
ISBN 978-3-8012-4296-1
