The Brave New World of Work

1. The Brazilianization of the West: Two Scenarios, One Introduction. 2. The Antithesis to the Work Society. 3. The Transition from the First to the Second Modernity: Five Challenges. 4. The Future of Work and Its Scenarios: An Interim Balance--Sheet. 5. The Risk Regime: How the Work Society is Becoming Risk Society. 6. A Thousand Worlds of Insecure Work: Europea s Future Glimpsed in Brazil. 7. The Great Example? Work and Democracy in America. 8. Vision of the Future I: The Europe of Civic Labour. 9. Vision of the Future II: Postnational Civil Society. Notes. Select Bibliography.