Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy by Stephen

Description: Changing Contours of Work by Stephen A. Sweet, Peter F. Meiksins A rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. The authors frame the development of jobs in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work and the profound effects these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Changing Contours of Work is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, this Fourth Edition shows the reader how the "old economy" is now operating within the "new economy" and how that integration shapes the development of work opportunities. Authors Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins use an 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 the 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. Author Biography Stephen Sweet is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Ithaca College and formerly the associate director of the Cornell Careers Institute, a Sloan Center for the Study of Working Families. He has written a number of articles on the challenges confronting working families, focusing on the issues of concern to dual career couples across the life course. His studies have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New Directions in Life Course Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Innovative Higher Education, The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Journal of College Student Development, and Community, Work, and Family. Stephens other book with SAGE is The Work-Family Interface. He has also published The Handbook of Work and Family with co-authors Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Ellen Ernst Kossek; Managing Careers in the New Risk Economy, with co-investigator Phyllis Moen; College and Society: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination, and Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics. Stephen has been the recipient of a Sloan Officers Grant to study the effects of corporate downsizing on dual earner couples.Peter Meiksins is a Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University. He is the author of many articles on the sociology of work, including studies of the work experiences of engineers and part-time work in professional technical occupations and essays on labor process theory, professional work in comparative perspective, and contemporary labor relations. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Work and Occupations, Theory and Society, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Work, Employment and Society, and Sociological Quarterly. He is the author of Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution (with Peter Whalley) and of Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective (with Chris Smith). Peters other books are Rethinking the Labor Process (with Mark Wardell and Tom Steiger) and Rising From the Ashes: Labor in the Age of Global Capitalism (with Ellen Wood and Michael Yates). He and co-investigator Peter Whalley received a major grant from the Sloan Foundation to study "Flexible Work for Technical Professionals." Peters current research concerns the sociology of design work (a study of the work of graphic designers, industrial designers and interior designers). This research has been supported by a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline grant from the American Sociological Foundation. Table of Contents List of ExhibitsAbout the AuthorsPreface to the Fourth EditionAcknowledgments1. Mapping the Contours of WorkScenes From the New EconomyCulture and WorkStructure and WorkClass StructuresJob Markets and Job DemandsDemography and the New Labor ForceAgency and CareersConclusion2. New Products, New Ways of Working, and the New EconomyA Postindustrial Society?The End of Mass Production?New Skills?Interpersonal Skills in the WorkplaceHigh-Tech WorkNew Cultures of Control?Technological Change and a Jobless Future?Rigid Jobs or Flexible Jobs?The End of Organized Labor?A New Global Economy?Conclusion3. Economic Inequality, Social Mobility, and the New EconomyAre Economic Divides Narrowing or Widening in the United States?Are Career Pathways Opening or Closing?Missing Rungs in the LadderEntry Points: Securing the Good Job in Young AdulthoodExclusion Owing to Criminal ConvictionIs the Global Economy Becoming More Flat or Bumpy?Conclusion4. Whose Jobs Are Secure?Risk and Work: Historical and Comparative ViewsHow Insecure Are Workers in the New Economy?The Costs of Job Loss and InsecurityOld and New CareersRisk, Well-Being and RetirementThe Dawn of the Gig EconomyConclusion5. A Fair Days Work? The Intensity and Scheduling of Jobs in the New EconomyTime, Intensity, and WorkHow Much Should We Work? Comparative FrameworksWhy Are Americans Working So Much?Nonstandard Schedules: Jobs in a 24/7 EconomyHow Americans Deal With OverworkConclusion6. Gender Chasms in the New EconomyWhen Did Home Work Become Nonwork?Womens Participation in the Paid Labor Force in AmericaGender Inequalities in CompensationSocialization, Career Selection, and Career PathsInterpersonal Discrimination in the WorkplaceStructural Dimensions of Gender DiscriminationThe Devaluation of "Womens Work"How Job Designs DiscriminateStrategies to Bridge the Care Gaps: International ComparisonsConclusion7. Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Legacies of the Past, Problems in the PresentHistories of Race, Ethnicity, and WorkAfrican American ExceptionalityThe Immigrant ExperienceMagnitude of Racial Inequality in the New EconomyIntergenerational Transmission of ResourcesRace, Ethnicity, and Economic CapitalRace, Ethnicity, and Human CapitalRace, Ethnicity, and Social CapitalRace, Ethnicity, and Cultural CapitalGeographic Distribution of Race and Work OpportunityRacial Prejudice and DiscriminationRacialized JobsRace, Ethnicity, and Work: Social PolicyOrganizational StrategiesAffirmative ActionImmigration PolicyConclusion8. Reshaping the Contours of the New EconomyOpportunity ChasmsClass ChasmsGender ChasmsRacial and Ethnic ChasmsInternational ChasmsAgents of ChangeIndividualsActivist, Advocacy, and Interest GroupsUnions and Organized LaborEmployersGovernmentInternational Organizations and International ControlsConclusionAppendix: Legislative and Regulatory Time Line of Worker Rights and Protections in the United StatesReferencesIndex Review "A thorough book, which is one of the best fits for this current course.""I believe this book is well organized. I often get positive feedback on my course surveys referring to the text." -- John Castella"We adopted it as a department because it had the best overall coverage of contemporary issues explored by our major, was reasonably priced, and was quite readable." -- Paula B. Voos"This insightful book offers a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the history, present, and future of work in the U.S. I appreciate the accompanying graphs and charts, as well as it′s engagement with race, class, and gender. The comparisons, both to work conditions in European nations and the global South, are important and eye-opening for my students." -- Hinda Seif Review Quote "We adopted it as a department because it had the best overall coverage of contemporary issues explored by our major, was reasonably priced, and was quite readable." Details ISBN1544305699 Author Peter F. Meiksins Short Title Changing Contours of Work Language English Year 2020 Edition 4th ISBN-10 1544305699 ISBN-13 9781544305691 Format Paperback Subtitle Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy DEWEY 331.0973 Pages 368 Publisher SAGE Publications Inc Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-08-17 NZ Release Date 2020-08-17 UK Release Date 2020-08-17 Illustrations Illustrations Edition Description 4th Revised edition Series Sociology for a New Century Series Publication Date 2020-11-14 Replaces 9781483358253 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education US Release Date 2020-11-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168418080;

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