Changing contours of work : jobs and opportunities in the new economy /: jobs and opportunities in the new economy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College, Peter Meiksins, Cleveland State University.
• Authors: Sweet, Stephen A; Meiksins, Peter, 1953-
• Contents: List of Exhibits; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Mapping the Contours of Work; Scenes From the New Economy; Culture and Work; Structure and Work; Agency and Careers; Chapter 2: New Products, New Ways of Working, and the New Economy; A Postindustrial Society?; The End of Mass Production?; New Skills?; New Cultures of Control?; The End of Organized Labor?; A New Global Economy?; Chapter 3: Economic Inequality, Social Mobility, Career Selection, and Career Paths; Interpersonal Discrimination in the Workplace; Structural Dimensions of Gender Discrimination; Strategies to Bridge the Care Gaps: International; Chapter 7: Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Legacies of the Past, Problems in the Present; Histories of Race, Ethnicity, and Work; Magnitude of Racial Inequality in the New Economy; Intergenerational Transmission of Resources; Geographic Distribution of Race and Work Opportunity; Racial Prejudice and Discrimination; Racialized Jobs; Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Social Policy; Chapter 8: Reshaping the Contours of the New Economy; Opportunity Chasms; Agents of Change; Appendix: Legislative and Regulatory Time Line of Worker Rights and Protections in the United States; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 331.0973; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States; Labor market -- United States; High technology industries -- United States; Hours of labor -- United States; Industrial relations -- United States; Globalization; Economic history; Globalization; High technology industries; Hours of labor; Industrial relations; Labor market; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects; United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483358260; 1483358267
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