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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It
David Weil
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Description for The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions, and ever-widening income inequality. Authoritative...[The Fissured Workplace] shed[s] important new light on the resurgence of the power of finance and its connection to the debasement of work and ... Read more
For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions, and ever-widening income inequality. Authoritative...[The Fissured Workplace] shed[s] important new light on the resurgence of the power of finance and its connection to the debasement of work and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674975446
SKU
V9780674975446
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About David Weil
David Weil served as President Barack Obama's Wage and Hour Administrator in the U.S. Department of Labor from May 2014 to January 2017. He currently is Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management in the Department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University Questrom School of Business and serves as a co-Director of the Transparency Policy Project at ... Read more
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