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	The Turtle Syndrome - The Mobility of Everyday Life URL: http://samvak.tripod.com/nm065.html ODP description: Mobility - both physical and social is enhanced by new transportation and communications technologies and by the new media. The emergence of alternative patterns of work are the result. Page title: The Turtle Syndrome - The Mobility of Everyday Life Page description: Ensconced in virtual shells, we move about, conducting our lives, attending to our businesses, absorbing, processing, creating and emitting information in endless streams of data and voice.
	Work, Retire & Die? There Must Be More To Life Than This! URL: http://www.readishmael.com/ ODP description: A website based on the book Ishmael by Michael Quinn which questions why people work hard to retire when the are old. In-depth reading to find the solution to the problem. Page title: Readishmael.com - Get A Job, Work, Retire And Die. There Must Be More To Life Than This! Page description: Get a job, make some money, work till you're sixty, then move to Florida and die. Can I have been the only person in the world who was disillusioned by this? There must be more to life than this. Ever wonder what's missing?
	@Work on the web URL: http://www.ecoplan.org/new-work/nw_index.htm ODP description: The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and implementation strategies. Page title: xWork - Rethinking Work - Opening Index Page description: @Work on the Web is the WWW site of the internatoinal cooperative program
	Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Supports URL: http://users.rcn.com/jonmarin/downsized.htm ODP description: Analyzes the Disguised Unemployment Problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are wasteful, and squander an opportunity for root reform. Presents the case for income supports, and the partial separation of incomes from current employment. Page title: Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Support Page description: Essay: Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Support .
	Flexibility URL: http://www.flexibility.co.uk/ ODP description: Online journal about new ways of working. Page title: Flexibility - Resources for Flexible Work Page description: Flexibility, the online journal of flexible work
	PBS Work and Labor Series: 'Livelihood' URL: http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/ ODP description: Companion site to the PBS series on work. Come share your thoughts, frustrations, and solutions to "The Workday that Wouldn't Die." Plus, learn about alternative work schedules and compelling discussions on the workday. Page title: Livelyhood -
	Virtual management - long distance teams URL: http://www.globalchange.com/vmanagement.htm ODP description: How to make teams work better over long distances using new technology to increase efficiency and reduce travel costs. Features, videos and slides by Fuurist Dr Patrick Dixon. Page title: Virtual Management
	Technology Making It Worse URL: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm ODP description: How the second Industrial Revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community. Page description: A description of how technology has changed from a powerful servant into a terrifying tyrant that is paralysing and impoverishing the community.
	Happy Planet Index URL: http://www.happyplanetindex.org ODP description: A site that measures the well-being of people in the nations of the world while taking into account their environmental impact. Page title: The Happy Planet Index
	CBC Newsonline Special Feature: The Way We Work URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/work/ ODP description: Interactive media site examining changing trends in the workworld and the impact on Canadians. Includes features on freelancing, changing work hours, unemployment and looking for work, work vs. life and work culture. With articles, Realaudio and video.
	An alein's view of life on earth URL: http://reviews.20m.com ODP description: Advertising, globalization, immigration, and corporations induce us to work too much to the detriment of family life, and combined with genetic engineering this urge to produce more could result in humans becoming almost robotic workers. Page title: An Alien's View of Life on Earth Page description: Machines and computers were supposed to let us work less, but globalization and corpoate interests means more work and more stress, strain family and marital life, that and genetic engineering may turn us into robots whose only purpose is turning out goods and services.
	Fisher Vista URL: http://www.fishervista.com ODP description: A marketing and PR firm focusing exclusively on the human resources industry with particular emphasis on work/life, EAP and related services. Page title: Fisher Vista \| Home Page description: Fisher Vista is a Marketing Services firm focusing exclusively on the work/life, EAP and related industries.