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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Doussard, Marc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
Working poor.
Wages.
Unskilled labor.
Labor market.
Labor.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Marche du travail > États-Unis.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis.
Travail > États-Unis.
Labor market > United States.
Wages > United States.
Working poor > United States.
Labor > United States.
Unskilled labor > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 organizing opportunities to improve job quality despite the overwhelming barriers to national political action.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816685639

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