Changing Contours Of Work

Author : Stephen Sweet,Peter Meiksins
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483358260

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Changing Contours of Work by Stephen Sweet,Peter Meiksins Pdf

In the Third Edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work (the “old economy” and the “new economy”) and identifying the profound effects that these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. The text examines the many complexities of race, class, and gender inequalities in the modern-day workplace, and details the consequences of job insecurity and work schedules mismatched to family needs. Throughout the text, strategic recommendations are offered to improve the new economy.

Author : Stephen Sweet,Peter Meiksins
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544305684

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Changing Contours of Work by Stephen Sweet,Peter Meiksins Pdf

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 : Stephen Sweet,Peter Meiksins
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412990868

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Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy by Stephen Sweet,Peter Meiksins Pdf

In the highly-anticipated second edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, authors Sweet and Meiskins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in 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 brings into focus the many complexities of class, race, and gender inequalities in the modern-day workplace, as well as details the consequences of job insecurity and work schedules mismatched to family needs. Throughout, strategic recommendations are offered that could help make the new economy work for us all.

Author : Seema Bathla,Amaresh Dubey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811060144

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Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture by Seema Bathla,Amaresh Dubey Pdf

This book presents an extensive study on India’s agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes. It offers appropriate financial, institutional, and policy frameworks that can help to sustain agricultural growth and augment farmers’ incomes across geographical locations. Further, it addresses agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through multiple pathways that also tackle varied geographical locations, making it a highly useful guide to understanding the changing contours in agriculture and rural areas across the country and among rural households with various social and economic backgrounds.

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462519552

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Global Shift, Seventh Edition by Peter Dicken Pdf

The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, nations, and other key players, and their role in shaping the uneven contours of development. Mapping the changing centers of gravity of the global economy, Dicken presents in-depth case studies of six major industries. Now in full color throughout, the text features 228 figures. Companion websites for students and instructors offer extensive supplemental resources, including author videos, applied case studies with questions, lecture notes with PowerPoint slides, discipline-specific suggested further reading for each chapter, and interactive flashcards. ÿ ÿ New to This Edition: *Every chapter thoroughly revised and updated. *All 228 figures (now in color) are new or redesigned. *Addresses the ongoing fallout from the recent global financial crisis. *Discussions of timely topics: tax avoidance and corporate social responsibility; global problems of unemployment, poverty, and inequality; environmental degradation; the Eurozone crisis; and more. *Enhanced online resources for instructors and students.

Author : Stephen Sweet,Professor W Richard Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Employees
ISBN : 1412989868

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Bundle by Stephen Sweet,Professor W Richard Scott Pdf

Author : V. S. Vyas
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8171887260

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Changing Contours of Asian Agriculture by V. S. Vyas Pdf

Commemorative volume published on the 75th birth anniversary of V.S. Vyas, economist from Rajasthan, India; most of the papers presented at a seminar held at Jaipur in February 2008.

Author : Leah F. Vosko,Martha MacDonald,Iain Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135284701

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Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment by Leah F. Vosko,Martha MacDonald,Iain Campbell Pdf

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across industrialized countries, as well as at the regional level within federal societies, such as Canada, Germany, the United States, and Australia and in the European Union. This book brings together contributions addressing this issue which include case studies exploring the size, nature, and dynamics of precarious employment in different industrialized countries and chapters examining conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of precarious employment in comparative perspective. The collection aims to yield new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, measuring, and responding, via public policy and other means – such as new forms of union organization and community organizing at multiple scales – to the forces driving labour market insecurity.

Author : Rajiv Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317399162

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India--Myanmar Relations by Rajiv Bhatia Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of India's multi-faceted relations with Myanmar. It unravels the mysteries of the complex polity of Myanmar as it undergoes transition through democracy after long military rule. Based on meticulous research and understanding, the volume traces the trajectory of India–Myanmar associations from ancient times to the present day, and offers a fascinating story in the backdrop of the region’s geopolitics. An in-depth analysis of ‘India–Myanmar–China Triangle’ brings out the strategic stakes involved. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, defence and strategic studies, politics, South and Southeast Asian studies, as well as policy-makers and political think tanks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Arid regions ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015032177175

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Changing Contours of Arid Ecology by Anonim Pdf

With reference to Rajasthan; contributed articles.

Author : Jason Russell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746046

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Canada, A Working History by Jason Russell Pdf

A deep exploration of the experience of work in Canada Canada, A Working History describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Work is shaped by a wide array of influences, including gender, class, race, ethnicity, geography, economics, and politics. It can be paid or unpaid, meaningful or alienating, but it is always essential. The work experience led people to form unions, aspire to management roles, pursue education, form professional associations, and seek self-employment. Work is also often in our cultural consciousness: it is pondered in song, lamented in literature, celebrated in film, and preserved for posterity in other forms of art. It has been driven by technological change, governed by laws, and has been the cause of disputes and the means by which people earn a living in Canada’s capitalist economy. Ennobling, rewarding, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, work has helped define who we are as Canadians.

Author : Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473943285

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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment by Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world. The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is structured around six core themes: Historical Context and Social Divisions The Experience of Work The Organization of Work Nonstandard Work and Employment Work and Life beyond Employment Globalization and the Future of Work. Globally, the contours of work and employment are changing dramatically. This handbook helps academics and practitioners make sense of the impact of these changes on individuals, groups, organizations and societies. Written in an accessible style with a helpful introduction, the retrospective and prospective nature of this volume will be an essential resource for students, teachers and policy-makers across a range of fields, from business and management, to sociology and organization studies.

Author : Juliet Schor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520385672

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After the Gig by Juliet Schor Pdf

When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work -- giving earners flexibliitiy, autonomy, and a decent income. But this novel form of work soon sprouted a dark side: exploited Uber drivers, neighborhoods ruined by Airbnb, racial discrimination, and rising carbon emissions. Several of the most prominent platforms are now faced with existential crises as they prioritize growth over fairness and long-term viability. Based on nearly a decade of pioneering research, After the Gig dives into what went wrong with this contemporary reimagining of labor. The book examines multiple types of data from thirteen cases to identify the unique features and potential of sharing platforms that prior research has failed to pinipoint

Author : Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Industrial sociology
ISBN : 1786840812

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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment by Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter Pdf

Globally, the contours of work and employment are changing dramatically. The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment helps academics and practitioners make sense of the impact of these changes on individuals, groups, organizations and societies.

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844675343

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Contours of Descent by Robert Pollin Pdf

The concepts of modernity and modernism are among the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular intervention, Pollin explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.