Nice Work If You Can Get It : Life and Labor in Precarious Times

Andrew Ross

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: NYU Press - IPS Mai 2009, 2009

0814776299 / 9780814776292

Serie: Libro 1 di 11 - NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

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Neuware - 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey into an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven global development Is job insecurity the new norm With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that-a dream In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national, class, and racial lines-from the emerging 'creative class' of high-wage professionals to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers. Developing the idea of 'precarious livelihoods' to describe this new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in developed nations-comparing the creative industry policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as developing countries-by examining the quickfire transformation of China's labor market. He also responds to the challenge of sustainability, assessing the promise of 'green jobs' through restorative alliances between labor advocates and environmentalists. Ross argues that regardless of one's views on labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new precarious and 'indefinite life,&' and the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge society emerges in these pages-less skewed toward flexploitation and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and renewable.…

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Titolo
Nice Work If You Can Get It : Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Autore
Andrew Ross
Editore
NYU Press - IPS Mai 2009
Anno di pubblicazione
2009
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0814776299
ISBN 13
9780814776292
Peso dell'articolo
503 grammi
Dimensioni
234x162x27 mm
Serie
Libro 1 di 11: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

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