ORF-E
German
1 x 52 min

Laborers would be completely replaced by robots and become obsolete, as the economist Jeremy Rifkin once predicted in “The End of Work”. Yet now, workers are needed more than ever. Lack of work force is becoming the issue of the 21st century. Until recently, there were enough workers. Now, there is a shortage of train drivers, cooks, waiters, nurses and, above all, factory workers. What are the reasons? Have automatization and digitalization failed? The fact is that the population of industrialized countries is shrinking. The most important resource for growth is becoming scarce: people. The social consequences are drastic, our prosperity is in danger. A film about the causes of change in the world of work and ideas on how to turn things around.