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Changing contours of work : jobs and opportunities in the new economy /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Los Angeles:
Sage Publications,
2013.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Sociology for a new century
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| Online Access: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pqqTTesXd-8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- List of exhibits
- About the authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Mapping the contours of work
- New products, new ways of working, and the new economy
- Economic inequality, social mobility, and the new economy
- Whose jobs are secure?
- A fair day's work? : the intensity and scheduling of jobs in the new economy
- Gender chasms in the new economy
- Race, ethnicity, and work : legacies of the past, problems in the present
- Reshaping the contours of the new economy
- Appendix: legislative and regulatory time line of worker rights and protections in the United States
- References
- Index.