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Changing contours of work : jobs and opportunities in the new economy / Stephen Sweetand Peter Meiksins.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Sociology for a new centuryPublication details: Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2013.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxi, 280 p. : illISBN:
  • 9781412990868 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.097 3 Q3
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Contents:
List of exhibits -- About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Mapping the contours of work -- New products, new ways of working, and the new economy -- Economic inequality, social mobility, and the new economy -- Whose jobs are secure? -- A fair day's work? : the intensity and scheduling of jobs in the new economy -- Gender chasms in the new economy -- Race, ethnicity, and work : legacies of the past, problems in the present -- Reshaping the contours of the new economy -- Appendix: legislative and regulatory time line of worker rights and protections in the United States -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-263) and index.

List of exhibits -- About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Mapping the contours of work -- New products, new ways of working, and the new economy -- Economic inequality, social mobility, and the new economy -- Whose jobs are secure? -- A fair day's work? : the intensity and scheduling of jobs in the new economy -- Gender chasms in the new economy -- Race, ethnicity, and work : legacies of the past, problems in the present -- Reshaping the contours of the new economy -- Appendix: legislative and regulatory time line of worker rights and protections in the United States -- References -- Index.

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