So far, blue-collar jobs have been more affected by the current wave of technological change--spawning discontent in many societies--but more waves are coming and white-collar jobs will soon be hit.
Lack of access to services such as education and healthcare, and high unemployment – especially among young people – has spawned widespread discontent with authorities in the southern capital.
Most worrisome to diplomats and security experts is Indonesia, where poverty has spawned widespread discontent, new political openness has given latitude to extremist groups and disarray in the security forces has weakened law enforcement.
Some argue that Yeltsin's Faustian bargain with a few rich oligarchs, who got much of the national wealth in exchange for helping assure that power did not revert to the Communists, beggared Russia and spawned lethal discontents.
More importantly, the three-day week and the winter of discontent spawned first punk and then new romanticism, both of which dictated that mainstream attire was for the middle-aged and out of touch.
When Los Angeles exploded after the Rodney King verdict, in 1992, Ice Cube's songs seemed like the soundtrack to the simmering discontent that spawned the riots.
The Moros' discontent has also spawned strains of Islamic extremism, including the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, which is said to have links to Al Qaeda and to the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah.
In May, Spanish youth — 45 percent unemployed, according to the latest statistics — rallied en masse as the "indignados," or indignant ones, erupting in the kind of popular discontent that has since spawned Occupy Wall Street.
The desperation of East Timor's unemployed, and the first spasms of violence it has spawned, are the sharpest signs of a swelling discontent in this physically and emotionally traumatized land.
Discontent about those schools and the distribution of city construction projects has spawned separatists not just in the San Fernando Valley, but also in Hollywood and the area around the harbour.
Their refusal quickly spawned speculation that both parties will seek to distance themselves from government policy when popular discontent over internationally mandated belt-tightening re-erupts.
