| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Work and Employment at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 2. Reproco: Creating Flexibly Specialized Service Workers -- Ch. 3. WoodWorkers for Life? Reconstructing Endangered Workers as Involved Participants -- Ch. 4. "I'd Work Forever as a Temporary Worker at CompTech": Temporary Work, Attachment, and Aspirations -- Ch. 5. Structural Unemployment and the Reconstruction of the Self in the Turbulent Economy -- Ch. 6. Crossing the Great Divide: Negotiating Uncertainty, Risk, and Opportunity |
| Summary |
"The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and the emergence to opportunity-enhancing employee participation programs reconfigured occupations, career paths, and labor market opportunities. Vicki Smith analyzes this shift, asking how workers navigated their way across the divide between bad jobs and good jobs, between bad jobs organized hierarchically and jobs requiring greater worker involvement, and between temporary and stable work." |
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"Crossing the Great Divide uses original case study data from four diverse organizational setting around the country. Smith compares the situations of nonunionized, white-collar workers at a photocopy service firm; unionized blue-collar workers in a wood-products processing factory; temporary assemblers and clerical workers in a high-tech firm; and unemployed managers, technical workers, and professionals participating in a job search club."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Labor market -- United States
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Working class -- United States.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor market
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Working class
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Strukturwandel
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Arbeitsbeziehungen
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Arbeidsverhoudingen.
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Economische ontwikkeling.
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Geschichte 1990-2000.
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Labor market -- United States.
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Working class -- United States.
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
00011936 |
| ISBN |
9781501717932 |
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1501717936 |
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