Restoring the American Dream
Subtitle: a working families' agenda for America
By: Thomas A. Kocham.
Publisher: MIT; MIT Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Work and family -- United States; Quality of life -- United States; Family policy -- United States; Social planning -- United States -- Citizen participation; United States -- Economic policy -- 21st century
Other titles: Working families' agenda for America
Description: "We cannot make the transition to a knowledge economy, writes Kochan, with a workforce that is stressed, frustrated, and insecure. Businesses need to rebuild relationships with their employees based on trust. And working families need to take control of their own destinies." "Kochan lays out an agenda for working families in the twenty-first century that calls for business, labor, government, and workers to come together to make the changes that will allow us all to benefit from the new economy. The solution to our problems, he points out, is too important to be left to "the market.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Work, family, and American values; title: Integrating work and family life; title: Contributing and prospering in a knowledge economy; title: Good jobs; title: Building knowledge-based organizations; title: Portable benefits; title: Restoring voice at work and in society; title: A working families' agenda for government; title: A call to action.