Degraded work : the struggle at the bottom of the labor market /

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Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago, this book examines changes in two industries in which inferior job quality is assumed to be intrinsic: residential construction and food retail. Arguing that a growing service sector does not have to mean growing inequality, the author proposes creative policy and or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doussard, Marc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2013.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
Temas:
Unskilled labor > United States.
Labor > United States.
Working poor > United States.
Wages > United States.
Labor market > United States.
Travail > États-Unis.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis.
Marché du travail > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Labor
Labor market
Unskilled labor
Wages
Working poor
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Boom in Poorly Paid and Precarious Jobs
  • New Inequalities : The Deterioration of Local-Serving Industries
  • Beyond Low Wages : The Problem of Degraded Work
  • The City That Sweats Work : Growth and Inequality in Post-Fordist Chicago
  • Oases in the Midst of Deserts : How Food Retailers Thrive in Disinvested Neighborhoods
  • "They're Happy to Have a Job" : Midsize Supermarkets and Degraded Work
  • Building Degradation : Dangerous Work and Falling Pay during a Construction Boom
  • A Perfectly Flexible Workforce : Day Labor in a Precarious Industry
  • New Answers to New Problems : The Creative Work of Reversing Degradation
  • Conclusion : Building a Fair Labor Market in Postmanufacturing Economies.

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