The future of work in Massachusetts
By: edited by Tom Juravich.
Contributors: Juravich, Tom.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781558496064; 9781558496071
Subjects: Economic forecasting -- Massachusetts; Employment forecasting -- Massachusetts; Massachusetts -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the future of work in Massachusetts / Tom Juravich; title: An overview of the economy, work, and the people who do it; title: The Massachusetts economy: a growing divide with uneven prospects / Mark Brenner; title: Low-wage women workers in Massachusetts / Marlene Kim; title: Massachusetts in the global economy: production shifts, outsourcing, and deindustrialization; title: Capital mobility and job loss in Massachusetts: corporate restructuring, production shifts, and outsourcing / Stephanie Luce and Kate Bronfenbrenner; title: Greater-Springfield deindustrialization / Robert Forrant; title: Beyond the Massachusetts miracle: the future of high tech software and Internet industry workers in Massachusetts / Sarah Kuhn and Paula Rayman; title: Transitions of a displaced high-tech labor force / William Lazonick and Steven Quimby; title: Health care in the Commonwealth: challenges and prospects; title: Career ladders in the Massachusetts long-term-care sector / Randall P. Wilson; title: Work time, class, and gender in four medical occupations / Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, and Dana Huyser; title: More than a paycheck: work and family in Massachusetts; title: Work-family challenges for blue-collar parents / Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Heather Bourne, and Karen Meteyer; title: Love's labor's lost?: costs and benefits of paid family and medical leave in Massachusetts / Randy Albelda and Alan Clayton-Matthews.