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Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Marc Doussard
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Description for Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 black and white illustrations, 4 maps and 15 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSG; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Critics on the left and the right typically agree that globalization, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the expansion of the service sector have led to income inequality and rising numbers of low-paying jobs with poor working conditions. In Degraded Work, Marc Doussard demonstrates that this decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers, demeaning their jobs in new ways-denying safety equipment, fining workers for taking scheduled breaks, requiring unpaid overtime-that ... Read more
Critics on the left and the right typically agree that globalization, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the expansion of the service sector have led to income inequality and rising numbers of low-paying jobs with poor working conditions. In Degraded Work, Marc Doussard demonstrates that this decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers, demeaning their jobs in new ways-denying safety equipment, fining workers for taking scheduled breaks, requiring unpaid overtime-that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681402
SKU
V9780816681402
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About Marc Doussard
Marc Doussard is assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked with community and labor organizations in Chicago and elsewhere since 2000.
Reviews for Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
An important and much-needed intervention in the literature on inequality and low-wage work. -Labour/Le Travail Degraded Work is a valuable contribution to the study of low-wage work, inequality, labor markets, and organizing. Doussard makes a convincing case that policy makers, practitioners, and scholars need to engage in serious local, sectoral research in order to truly understand ... Read more