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Brave New Work 

"People wonder why anyone in GM management would listen to someone who looks like me and talks like me.  But people are so desperate they are willing to listen to a philosopher."

  • Scanned pdf file of January 18, 1987 Detroit Free Press article on Professor Bergmann's New Work initiative in Flint.

Philosopher of the New Work Order

"Technology displaced people from the land into the factories.  Now it was displacing them from the factories into the service industries.  Soon it will be displacing them from the service industries into..."

  • Jpeg image of March 28, 1993 Detroit Free Press article on Professor Bergmann and New Work

The Future Of Work

"Consider, simply as an opening proposition, the idea that half the sum-total of the now existing jobs could soon be eliminated..."

  • Scanned pdf file of 1996 article in Perspectives on Business and Global Change, Vol. 10, no. 1.  Reprint of an article, at the request of the publishers, which originally appeared in the October 1983 Praxis International, a Yugoslavian journal now out of print.

To access more of Professor Bergmann's writing please see the Publications page.

"I have tried to evolve an organically integrated set of policy proposals that would have the power not only to stop the appalling deterioration of our country – her accelerating descent into a pit of cynicism, passivity, violence and despair – but that, instead, would define a step by step process leading us back to the path of our original mission: to becoming the greatest force on the globe in the struggle for a more humane, a more intelligent and a more life-giving culture."

- Frithjof Bergmann