num_pages: 384
description: The nature of work in America is changing in important ways. Blue-collar jobs are being eliminated because of increased competition from countries where wages are lower, while a greater economic role is being assumend by professional, technical, and clerical workers involved in developing complex technologies, providing services, and processing information. All this affects the values and expectations of those who work as well as their relationships to one another and to society at large.
language: English
title: The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives
titlecomplete: The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives (American Sociological Association)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Yale University Press