Changing contours of work
Subtitle: jobs and opportunities in the new economy
By: Stephen Sweet, Peter Meiksins
Contributors: Meiksins, Peter, 1953-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Sociology for a new century
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412990868
Subjects: Industrial relations; Economic conditions; High technology industries; Hours of labor; Labor market; Technological innovations; Globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of exhibits; title: About the authors; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Mapping the contours of work; title: New products, new ways of working, and the new economy; title: Economic inequality, social mobility, and the new economy; title: Whose jobs are secure?; title: A fair day's work? : the intensity and scheduling of jobs in the new economy; title: Gender chasms in the new economy; title: Race, ethnicity, and work : legacies of the past, problems in the present; title: Reshaping the contours of the new economy; title: Appendix: legislative and regulatory time line of worker rights and protections in the United States; title: References; title: Index.