Changing contours of work : jobs and opportunities in the new economy / Stephen A. Sweet and Peter Meiksins
Imprint
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2013
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
xxi, 280 p. : ill.
CONTENT
Mapping the contours of work -- New products, new ways of working, and the new economy -- Economic inequality, social mobility, and the new economy -- Whose jobs are secure? -- A fair day's work? The intensity and scheduling of jobs in the new economy -- Gender chasms in the new economy -- Race, ethicity, and wrok : legacies of the past, problems in the present -- Reshaping the contours of the new economy
SUBJECT
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States
Labor market -- United States
High technology industries -- United States
Hours of labor -- United States
Industrial relations -- United States
Globalization
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century