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The Betrayal of Work
How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families
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Artikel-Nr:
9781565847330
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.2003
Seiten:
255
Autor:
Beth Shulman
Gewicht:
408 g
Format:
197x141x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Beth Shulman (1949-2010) was a labor lawyer, a former vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, a senior analyst at the Russell Sage Foundation, and the chair of National Employment Law Project board. She was the author of The Betrayal of Work (The New Press) and Good Jobs America.
Americans do seem to be paying renewed attention to low-wage work - as interest in Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickel and Dimed" makes clear - attention that is sure to increase as Congress debates the extension of welfare reform. "The Betrayal of Work" moves the conversation forward, providing a full portrait of America's working poor, and dispelling a number of myths along the way: that lower unemployment has meant better living conditions for the poor; that making bad jobs into good jobs requires impossibly difficult measures; that low-wage work is ubiquitously low-skill work. With a far-reaching argument about what we must do to restore fairness to the American economic order.