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Changing Contours of Work
Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy
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About this book
The authors are proud sponsors of theĀ 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardāenabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Changing Contours of WorkĀ is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, thisĀ Fourth EditionĀ shows the reader how the "old economy" is now operating within the "new economy" and how that integrationĀ shapes the development of work opportunities.AuthorsĀ Stephen Sweet and PeterĀ MeiksinsĀ use anĀ international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work and identifying the profound effects that these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. This text supports the reader?s understanding of theĀ origins of current problems confronting working people in the new economy, and contributes to a much-needed dialogue about the strategies for liberating workers from poverty, drudgery, discrimination, stress, and exploitation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Exhibits
- About the Authors
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Mapping the Contours of Work
- Chapter 2 New Products, New Ways of Working, and the New Economy
- Chapter 3 Economic Inequality, Social Mobility, and the New Economy
- Chapter 4 Whose Jobs Are Secure?
- Chapter 5 A Fair Dayās Work?: The Intensity and Scheduling of Jobs in the New Economy
- Chapter 6 Gender Chasms in the New Economy
- Chapter 7 Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Legacies of the Past, Problems in the Present
- Chapter 8 Reshaping the Contours of the New Economy
- Appendix Legislative and Regulatory Timeline of Worker Rights and Protections in the United States
- References
- Index