Product Description: Faith in the free market--the idea that profit seeking, managed care companies will improve the health care delivery system--has become a hot topic in the public policy debate. But, as Joel Blau demonstrates in this splendid work, so-called "free market" programs have been a dismal failure...read more

Product Description: This selection of Robert Eisner's essays ties together his contribution to economic analysis and macroeconomic policy issues. He dissects the fundamental issues of employment, growth and economic welfare in an advanced market economy, offering a challenge to conventional wisdom. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collective portrait documents the disproportionate vulnerability of African Americans to the ongoing transformations of the U.S. economy from industrial to service areas as the twenty-first century approaches. The chapters have been previously published in The Review of Black Political Economy between 1991 and 1996...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The twenty-first century has witnessed a transformation of the organization, opportunities, and terms of work. Downsizing, restructuring, and outsourcing are the forces altering employment relationships throughout the work force. Those who tend to see the future in a positive light view the evolving role between employer and employee as empowering for the individual.This book examines the consequences of economic instability due to job loss and the displacement of millions of workers. It draws upon case studies of worker displacement as well as national labor force surveys. Thomas S. Moore finds that consequences of economic instability are productivity slowdown, increased disparities in earnings and income, and higher average unemployment. He assesses the extent of job loss nationwide, its costs to the individuals directly affected, and the way in which the incidence of displacement and earnings loss has shifted over time. Although drawn from an earlier period, the data have an obvious relevance to today's labor markets.Moore argues for an employment and training system that gives employers an incentive to invest in the skills of their employees. Federally funded training programs have not improved the earning ability of displaced and disadvantaged workers, and state-sponsored programs tend to exclude those most in need of assistance. Moore suggests direct employer investment in the general skills of employees. Initially published in a different economic downturn, this continues to be a must read book for all economists, sociologists, and policymakers.

Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A guide for individuals and organizations to the current workplace, where secure jobs are increasingly being replaced by temporary, free-lance assignments and consulting positions, offers strategies for surviving and prospering amid the turbulence. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Fetterman, Charles Phillips

Product Description: Using charts, graphs, and cartoons, Michael Yates describes how unemployment, or the fear of it, is part of the life of every American worker. He outlines the changes in the structure of the labor market that have undermined the living standards of the employed...read more

Suggests changes in buying habits and lifestyle that can help strengthen the American economy

Offers advice on finances, food, clothing, school expenses, and housing payments, and discusses unemployment benefits, legal services, and ways to minimize stress

Book by Gaffikin, Frank, Morrissey, Mike

Product Description: Book by Hyclak, Thomas, Johnes, Geraint

Product Description: This book stands back from the details of labor market scholarship and, in nontechnical language, takes a hard look at what we know and don't know about the labor market problems that face us as we move into the decade of the 1990s...read more

Product Description: How do unemployment and poverty affect families? Is there a relationship between work and family life? Where can families facing financial difficulties turn for assistance? Applied in focus, this volume addresses these and other questions by first examining a given problem and then offering practical solutions...read more

Argues that the American economy has continued to decine since the late 1960s and includes ideas for America's revitalization

Product Description: The problems and issues of unemployment are given comprehensive coverage through discussions of measurement, theory and policy which are backed up with empirical evidence drawn from postwar experience in the United States and the United Kingdom.