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9780801452383 | Ilr Pr, November 5, 2013, cover price $73.50
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9780801478956 | Ilr Pr, November 5, 2013, cover price $19.95
About 27.5 million Americansânearly 24 percent of the labor forceâearn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time year-round. Job ladders for these workers have been dismantled, limiting their ability to get ahead in todayâs labor market. Low-Wage America is the most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make in response to economic globalization, industry deregulation, and advances in information technology affect the lives of tens of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution.Based on data from hundreds of establishments in twenty-five industriesâincluding manufacturing, telecommunications, hospitality, and health careâthe case studies document how firmsâ responses to economic restructuring often results in harsh working conditions, reduced benefits, and fewer opportunities for advancement. For instance, increased pressure for profits in newly consolidated hotel chains has led to cost-cutting strategies such as requiring maids to increase the number of rooms they clean by 50 percent. Technological changes in the organization of call centersâthe ultimate âdisposable workplaceââhave led to monitoring of operatorsâ work performance, and eroded job ladders. Other chapters show how the temporary staffing industry has provided paths to better work for some, but to dead end jobs for many others; how new technology has reorganized work in the back offices of banks, raising skill requirements for workers; and how increased competition from abroad has forced U.S. manufacturers to cut costs by reducing wages and speeding production.Although employersâ responses to economic pressures have had a generally negative effect on frontline workers, some employers manage to resist this trend and still compete successfully. The benefits to workers of multi-employer training consortia and the continuing relevance of unions offer important clues about what public policy can do to support the job prospects of this vast, but largely overlooked segment of the American workforce. Low-Wage America challenges us to a national self-examination about the nature of low-wage work in this country and asks whether we are willing to tolerate the profound social and economic consequences entailed by these jobs. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Case Studies of Job Quality in Advanced Economies
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9780871540256 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: About 27.
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9780871540263 | Russell Sage Foundation, July 25, 2006, cover price $22.50
Product Description: Changes in what researchers have called the "fundamental arithmetic of the family" - the ratio of jobs, including management of the home, to adults in the household - are creating stresses that affect both family life and workers' performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780944826850 | Economic Policy Inst, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Changes in what researchers have called the "fundamental arithmetic of the family" - the ratio of jobs, including management of the home, to adults in the household - are creating stresses that affect both family life and workers' performance.
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9780801437656 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $61.00
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9780801486555 | Ilr Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
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9780875463186 | Ilr Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $45.00
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9780875463193 | Ilr Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $37.95
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9780275933760 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1990, cover price $84.00
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9780865690769 | Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 1982, cover price $64.00
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