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This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life. In the past quarter century, the nature of paid employment has undergone a dramatic change due to globalization, rapid technological change, the decline of the power of workers in favor of employers, and the spread of neoliberalism. Jobs have become far more insecure and uncertain, with workers bearing the risks of employment as opposed to employers or the government. This trend towards precarious work has engulfed virtually all advanced capitalist nations, but unevenly so, while countries in the Global South continue to experience precarious conditions of work. This title examines theories of precarious work; cross-national variations in its features; racial and gender differences in exposure to precarious work; and the policy alternatives that might protect workers from undue risk. The chapters utilize a variety of methods, both quantitative statistical analyses and careful qualitative case studies. This volume will be a valuable resource that constitutes required reading for scholars, activists, labor leaders, and policy makers concerned with the future of work under contemporary capitalism.

Precarious employment --- #SBIB:316.334.2A340 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A344 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A470 --- Employment, Precarious --- Labor --- Arbeidssociologie: ongelijkheden op de arbeidsmarkt: algemeen --- Arbeidssociologie: ongelijkheden op de arbeidsmarkt: positie van ongeschoolden op de arbeidsmarkt --- Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen --- Precarious employment. --- Non-standard employment

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Being laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their bills and find a new job. In the American economy's boom-and-bust business cycle since the 1980's, repeated layoffs have become part of working life. In A Company of One, Carrie M. Lane finds that the new culture of corporate employment, changes to the job search process, and dual-income marriage have reshaped how today's skilled workers view unemployment. Through interviews with seventy-five unemployed and underemployed high-tech white-collar workers in the Dallas area over the course of the 2000's, Lane shows that they have embraced a new definition of employment in which all jobs are temporary and all workers are, or should be, independent "companies of one. "Following the experiences of individual jobseekers over time, Lane explores the central role that organized networking events, working spouses, and neoliberal ideology play in forging and reinforcing a new individualist, pro-market response to the increasingly insecure nature of contemporary employment. She also explores how this new perspective is transforming traditional ideas about masculinity and the role of men as breadwinners. Sympathetic to the benefits that this "company of one" ideology can hold for its adherents, Lane also details how it hides the true costs of an insecure workforce and makes collective and political responses to job loss and downward mobility unlikely.

Displaced workers --- Unemployed --- White collar workers --- #SBIB:316.334.2A350 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A71 --- Arbeidssociologie: werkloosheid: algemeen --- Beroepensociologie: bedienden --- E-books

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The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and the emergence of opportunity-enhancing employee participation programs reconfigured occupations, career paths, and labor market opportunities. Vicki Smith analyzes this shift, asking how workers navigated their way across the divide between bad jobs and good jobs, between jobs organized hierarchically and jobs requiring greater worker involvement, and between temporary and stable work. Crossing the Great Divide uses original case study data from four diverse organizational settings around the country. Smith compares the situations of nonunionized, white-collar workers at a photocopy service firm; unionized blue-collar workers in a wood-products processing factory; temporary assemblers and clerical workers in a high-tech firm; and unemployed managers, technical workers, and professionals participating in a job search club. The very different experiences revealed in Crossing the Great Divide highlight the way diverse new relationships between companies and their employees play out in workplaces, where new forms of work organization simultaneously create opportunity, instability, and risk for workers. Smith's goal is to construct a new framework of employment that accommodates the unpredictability and turbulence of the 21st century, but that is also "characterized at its core by attachment, reward, protection, commitment, and dignity."

Working class --- Labor market --- #SBIB:316.334.2A320 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A520 --- Arbeidssociologie: morfologie van de arbeidsmarkt --- Organisatiesociologie: arbeidssituatie en arbeidsomstandigheden: algemeen

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This collection draws on international comparisons from the main industrialized countries in a key field - the construction industry. One only has to walk around almost any major city in the industrialized economies of the world to see how well the construction industry is doing and this study is a timely analysis of a growing field.This genuinely internationally focused book has contributions from leading experts and academics in the sphere of construction.This well-written, informative collection is a must-read book for advanced students, academics and professionals who are serious a

#SBIB:316.334.2A470 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A460 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A524 --- Construction industry --- Collective bargaining --- Comparative industrial relations. --- Industrial relations --- Bargaining --- Labor negotiations --- Negotiation in business --- Building industry --- Home building industry --- Building --- Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen --- Arbeidssociologie: patronale strategieën: algemeen --- Organisatiesociologie: arbeidssituatie en arbeidsomstandigheden: metaalverwerkende nijverheid --- Government policy --- Deregulation --- Comparative industrial relations

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Colin Crouch presents a wide ranging survey of the relationship between trade unions, employers, and governments in western Europe. Employing rigorous economic and historical analysis, he presents powerful explanations of the diversity and significance of industrial relations in the 20th century.

Industrial relations --- #SBIB:316.334.2A440 --- #SBIB:324H44 --- #SBIB:HIVA --- 316.334.2:331 --- 331.105.6 --- #A9306A --- 331.105.6 Arbeidsverhoudingen. Tripartiet overleg. Sociaal economisch overleg --- Arbeidsverhoudingen. Tripartiet overleg. Sociaal economisch overleg --- 316.334.2:331 Arbeidssociologie --- Arbeidssociologie --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Employees --- Management --- History --- Arbeidssociologie: het strategisch optreden van de partijen in de collectieve arbeidsverhoudingen: algemeen --- Politieke structuren: drukkingsgroepen, lobbying --- History of Europe --- History. --- Labor movement --- E-books --- Industrial relations - Europe - History.