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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herzenberg, Stephen
Other Authors: Wial, Howard, Alic, John A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Travailleurs (secteur tertiaire) > Offre et demande > Etats-unis.
Marche du travail.
Emploi > Prevision > États-Unis.
Industrie manufacturiere > Personnel > Offre et demande > États-Unis.
Prognoses.
Arbeidsmarkt.
Beschäftigung
Dienstleistungsbetrieb
Service industries workers > Supply and demand > Forecasting.
Manufacturing industries > Employees > Supply and demand > Forecasting.
Labor market.
Employment forecasting.
Industrie manufacturiere > Personnel > Offre et demande > États-Unis > Prevision.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel > Offre et demande > États-Unis > Prevision.
Marche du travail > États-Unis.
Manufacturing industries > Employees > Supply and demand > United States > Forecasting.
Service industries workers > Supply and demand > United States > Forecasting.
Labor market > United States.
Employment forecasting > United States.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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