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

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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Unskilled labor > United States.
Labor > United States.
Working poor > United States.
Wages > United States.
Labor market > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Labor
Labor market
Unskilled labor
Wages
Working poor
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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