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Fissured Workplace Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

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ISBN-10: 0674725441

ISBN-13: 9780674725447

Edition: 2014

Authors: David Weil

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For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions, and ever-widening income inequality.From the perspectives of CEOs and…    
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Book details

List price: $31.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Frederick Abernathy is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering in Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Kermit Baker is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. Kent W. Colton is President of The Colton Housing Group and is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. David Weil is Professor of Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management.