Degraded work [electronic resource] : the struggle at the bottom of the labor market / Marc Doussard.

By: Doussard, MarcContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Description: xvii, 275 p. : illISBN: 9780816685639 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Unskilled labor -- United States | Labor -- United States | Working poor -- United States | Wages -- United States | Labor market -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.7/980973 LOC classification: HD8072.5 | .D68 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
New inequalities : the deterioration of local-serving industries -- Beyond low wages : the problem of degraded work -- The city that sweats work : growth and inequality in post-fordist Chicago -- Oases in the midst of deserts : how food retailers thrive in disinvested neighborhoods -- "They're happy to have a job" : mid-size supermarkets and degraded work -- Building degradation : dangerous work and falling pay during a construction boom -- A perfectly flexible workforce : day labor in a precarious industry -- New answers to new problems : the creative work of reversing degradation.
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