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New Rules for a New Economy : Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America /

Three quarters of the American workforce is now employed in services, a substantial portion in low-paying, dead-end jobs. Can the service economy do as well by the American worker as the old manufacturing economy? Can the widely shared prosperity that accompanied steady increases in productivity and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Herzenberg, Stephen
Otros Autores: Wial, Howard, Alic, John A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Recreating the Prosperity of the Past in the Economy of the Future
  • 2. The Service Economy and the Service Worker
  • 3. Work Systems
  • 4. The Dynamics of Change in Work Systems
  • 5. Reorganizing Work: Using Knowledge and Skill to Improve Economic Performance
  • 6. Business Organization
  • 7. Creating Multiemployer Institutions: Career Paths and Performance Improvement
  • 8. A New Deal for a New Economy
  • Appendix A. Services Compared with Manufacturing: Jobs and Productivity
  • Appendix B. Employment Estimates by Work System
  • Notes
  • Index