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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Ithaca :
ILR Press,
1998.
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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


