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Discusses the evolution of occupational opportunities in the postmodern US, & suggests that the labor process, & the associated realms of society & culture, have been transformed by the dominance of technoscience. Based on case studies of US workers, it is argued that technological advances in production methods are destroying jobs. Further, this trend seems likely to continue as more workers become redundant within the context of the global market of fewer opportunities; workers of all levels will be forced to seek income outside their primary jobs. It is suggested that technoscience has displaced manual labor & marginalized skilled & managerial positions, & that unions have been forced to reorganize the labor force in terms of the new demands for knowledge work. These circumstances have catalyzed two major problems: the erosion of the work ethic as a guiding social principle, & the lowering of wages. It is concluded that resolution of these problems demands creation of a new form of public morality & the decommodification of medicine, education, housing, & food. T. Sevier