Nice work if you can get it : life and labor in precarious times /

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Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that--a dream? In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Andrew, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
Colección:NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
Temas:
Employment in foreign countries.
Foreign workers.
Globalization.
Emploi à l'étranger.
Mondialisation.
Travailleurs étrangers.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Employment in foreign countries
Foreign workers
Globalization
Arbeitnehmer
Migration
Globalisierung
Arbeitsmarkt
Befristetes Arbeitsverhältnis
Arbeitsvertrag > Befristung.
Arbeit > Globalisierung.
Globalisierung > Arbeit.
Migration > Fremdarbeiter.
Fremdarbeiter > Migration.
Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag.
Arbeitsverhältnis.
Arbeitsmarktpolitik.
Lebensqualität.
Globalisierung.
Auslandsaufenthalt.
Ungeschützte Beschäftigung.
Arbeitsmarkt.
Vergleich.
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Sumario:Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that--a dream? In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national, class, and racial lines--from the emerging "creative class" of high-wage professionals to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers. Developing the idea of "precarious livelihoods" to describe this new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in developed nations--comparing the creative industry policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as developing countries--by examining the quickfire transformation of China's labor market. He also responds to the challenge of sustainability, assessing the promise of "green jobs" through restorative alliances between labor advocates and environmentalists
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index.
ISBN:9781441615688
1441615687
9780814776353
0814776353
9780814777398
0814777392

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