Degraded work : the struggle at the bottom of the labor market /

Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago, this book examines changes in two industries in which inferior job quality is assumed to be intrinsic: residential construction and food retail. Arguing that a growing service sector does not have to mean growing inequality, the author proposes creative policy and or...

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Main Author: Doussard, Marc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2013.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
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505 0 |a Introduction : The Boom in Poorly Paid and Precarious Jobs -- New Inequalities : The Deterioration of Local-Serving Industries -- Beyond Low Wages : The Problem of Degraded Work -- The City That Sweats Work : Growth and Inequality in Post-Fordist Chicago -- Oases in the Midst of Deserts : How Food Retailers Thrive in Disinvested Neighborhoods -- "They're Happy to Have a Job" : Midsize Supermarkets and Degraded Work -- Building Degradation : Dangerous Work and Falling Pay during a Construction Boom -- A Perfectly Flexible Workforce : Day Labor in a Precarious Industry -- New Answers to New Problems : The Creative Work of Reversing Degradation -- Conclusion : Building a Fair Labor Market in Postmanufacturing Economies. 
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