Taking lessons from the most successful social efforts in the past, Skocpol identifies ways the missing middle can reclaim social policy and offers exciting new goals for democracy in the coming century. To view the multimedia gallery of a Century Foundation event featuring The Missing Middle, click here . The potential for a sustained era of economic expansion more equitably shared is on the horizon, thanks to the revolution in computer and information technology that has now come of age. Though optimistic about the productivity boom, the authors do not believe that the payoff to the technology revolution can be fully realized without a sea change in economic policy. To view the multimedia gallery of a Century Foundation event featuring Growing Prosperity, click here .
Workers can no longer expect stable, full-time jobs and steadily rising incomes.
Instead, they face stagnant wages, layoffs, rising inequality, and the increased likelihood of merely temporary work. In Securing Prosperity, Paul Osterman explains in clear, accessible terms why these changes have occurred and lays out an innovative plan for new economic institutions that promises a more secure future. We need approaches grounded in the realities of service jobs and opportunities, and the challenges posed to employers and workers by dynamic markets and continual business reorganization. The Crisis in American Pay James K. Galbraith contends that America's wage gap was driven up by public policies shaped by and for the wealthy, and this lies at the heart of our current political crisis. Now, public policies must act to reduce the wage gap if the crisis is to end.