Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Workforce 2020 Summary. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 4 page paper summarizes a chapter from the book “Workforce 2020,” about what the American workforce might look like in the year 2020. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Page Count:
4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: KV32_HVwk2020.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
The first thing a reader is likely to notice is that the work seems very dated. It was written in the late 1990s, apparently, when it seemed as though there
would be no end to the prosperity and growth that had occurred with the boom in technology. They talk about a shortage of workers, not a shortage of jobs; they
obviously never saw the current recession coming. That aside, the authors main concern is to describe what American workers can do to prepare themselves for employment in 2020. First, they
describe two exaggerated scenarios that they see as possible opposing outgrowths of current trends. The first is a world similar to todays, only more exaggerated, where a small cadre of
highly skilled, technically proficient elite have most of the wealth, a smaller middle class is able to make a fairly decent living, and a lower class plods along, making very
little in dead-end, service jobs. Set against this depressingly familiar scenario is a much more utopian vision: in this future, people of all races and creeds enjoy a great deal
of success. Those who amass great wealth do so because they are technologically very proficient or they work extremely hard, or both. But they also share their knowledge so that
everyone profits, and the climb up the ladder of success is swift for all those who apply themselves. There is no desperately poor underclass, and the elderly have not given
up, but share the knowledge they have amassed during a lifetime of work. This extremely idealized portrait of American society is the model to which the authors aspire, and
they devote the rest of the article to telling readers how to make it happen. First, they say, "dont protect sweatshops"; that is, dont put protectionist laws in place to
...