Good Jobs Bad Jobs

Name: Good Jobs Bad Jobs
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ISBN: 9780871544803

ISBN-10: 0871544806

ISBN-13: 9780871544803

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Authors: Kalleberg

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs provides an insightful analysis of how and why precarious employment is gaining ground in the labor market and the role these developments have played in the decline of the middle class. Kalleberg shows that by the 1970s, government deregulation, global competition, and the rise of the service sector gained traction, while institutional protections for workers such as unions and minimum-wage legislation weakened. Together, these forces marked the end of postwar security for American workers. The composition of the labor force also changed significantly; the number of dual-earner families increased, as did the share of the workforce comprised of women, non-white, and…

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



About the Author


Acknowledgments



Job Quality in the United States



Changing Work Structures and Workers



Economic Transformation and the Decline of Institutional Protections



New Workers, New Differences



Inequality in Job Quality



Dimensions of Polarity



Precarious Employment Relations



Economic Rewards: Earnings and Fringe Benefits



Control over Work Activities and Intrinsic Rewards



Time at Work: Hours, Intensity, and Control



Job Satisfaction



Challenges for Policy



Confronting Polarization and Precarity



Implementing the New Social Contract


Notes


References


Index