Introduction -- Shifting from manufacturing to services and skill mismatches -- Transnational corporations enthralled with outsourcing and offshoring -- Technological change and job loss -- Global trade, shareholder value, and financialization as structural causes of unemployment -- Fixing structural unemployment -- Conclusion : can we trust transnational corporations?
Summary
There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that "jobless recoveries" could become a permanent feature of Western economies. This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of advanced industrial countries, providing readers with the sociological imagination to appreciate the bigger picture of where workers fit in the new international division of labor
