New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America
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Book Overview
Three quarters of the American workforce is now employed in services, a substantial portion in low-paying, dead-end jobs. Can the service economy do as well by the American worker as the old manufacturing economy? Can the widely shared prosperity that accompanied steady increases in productivity and performance in manufacturing be replicated in the services? They can and they will, the authors of this timely book contend, but only if outmoded policies...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801486580
ISBN13:9780801486586
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:ILR Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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essential reading for economic policy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Everybody knows that the US economy is generating a lot of low-wage, dead-end service jobs. Now there's a book that knows what to do about it. This book is chock full of cheap, practical, useful ways of turning dead-end jobs into careers, linking jobs to training, facilitating employee organization. Should be part of the platform for Republicans and Democrats.
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