Future of Consumer Society - Cohen, Maurie J. (Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Shows how consumer society is changing due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, resource scarcity, and steady jobs being replaced by freelancing. It examines how people are striving to find new ways to ensure livelihoods and the role that the role that worker-consumer cooperatives could play.