It's not a problem, it's a solution.
And we didn't have a revolution, which is a good thing. The changes required could be mostly achieved by legislative and cultural change.
A "revolution (of sorts)" can be a revolution in the way we think - "a cultural revolution" and I do believe that we had one back then, a brief shining moment.
But considering the hardening of attitudes and flight of money up the wealth trail since then, I don't see a 'world without work' happening anytime soon!