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History of women in the United States. : historical articles on women's lives and activities
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ISBN: 3110979098 9783110979091 Year: 1993 Publisher: Munich : K. G Saur,

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Cracking the new job market : the 7 rules for getting hired in any economy
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ISBN: 1283246899 9786613246899 0814417353 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : American Management Association,

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Forget everything you think you know about landing a well-paid job-the rules have changed forever.


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Technology and employment : concepts and clarifications
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ISBN: 0813303990 Year: 1986 Publisher: Boulder Westview Press

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A company of one : insecurity, independence, and the new world of white-collar unemployment
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ISBN: 0801461278 0801460794 0801449642 0801477271 9780801449642 9780801477270 9780801460791 9780801461279 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press,

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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.

Computer chips and paper clips : technology and women's employment
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ISBN: 0309036887 9786610221820 1280221828 0309594626 0585168350 9780585168357 Year: 1986 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

Case studies and policy perspectives : technology and women's employment
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ISBN: 0309037271 9786610221431 1280221437 0309554985 0585261555 9780585261553 Year: 1987 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

Employment relationships : new models of white-collar work
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ISBN: 9780521684088 9780511611544 9780521865371 0511611544 9780511395031 0511395035 0511392389 9780511392382 0511394381 9780511394386 0521684080 0521865379 0511391072 9780511391071 1107178703 1281370762 9786611370763 0511393679 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a quite dramatic shift in the nature of white collar employment, from lifetime tenure, often in a very hierarchical work structure, to a new model defined by flatter organizations, job insecurity, shorter tenures, declining attachment between employer and employee, and contingent work. Managing employment relations has become an issue of huge strategic importance as businesses struggle to respond to the pace of change in management systems and working practices. Employment Relationships: New Models of White-Collar Work traces developments in employment arrangements drawn from a number of business contexts. These include the rising role of outside hiring and lateral moves in shaping and managing careers, increased career uncertainty, and much greater variety in organizational structures - even within industries and professions - as employers struggle to meet the diverging demands of their product markets.

The white-collar shuffle : who does what in today's computerized workplace.
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ISBN: 081445996X Year: 1990 Publisher: New York AMACOM

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Emerging labor market institutions for the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 9780226261584 9780226261577 0226261573 0226261581 9786611125653 1281125652 0226261816 9780226261812 9781281125651 6611125655 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Private sector unionism is in decline in the United States. As a result, labor advocates, community groups, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals concerned with the well-being of workers have sought to develop alternative ways to represent workers' interests. Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to this drastically altered landscape. This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. The contributors examine the behavior and impact of new organizations that have formed to solve workplace problems and to bolster the position of workers. They also document how unions employ new strategies to maintain their role in the economic system. While non-union institutions are unlikely to fill the gap left by the decline of unions, the findings suggest that emerging groups and unions might together improve some dimensions of worker well-being. Emerging Labor Market Institutions is the story of workers and institutions in flux, searching for ways to represent labor in the new century.

Wages and labor markets in the United States, 1820-1860
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ISBN: 0226505073 9786612004964 1282004964 0226505022 9780226505022 9780226505077 9781282004962 6612004967 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Research by economists and economic historians has greatly expanded our knowledge of labor markets and real wages in the United States since the Civil War, but the period from 1820 to 1860 has been far less studied. Robert Margo fills this gap by collecting and analyzing the payroll records of civilians hired by the United States Army and the 1850 and 1860 manuscript federal Censuses of Social Statistics. New wage series are constructed for three occupational groups-common laborers, artisans, and white-collar workers-in each of the four major census regions-Northeast, Midwest, South Atlantic, and South Central-over the period 1820 to 1860, and also for California between 1847 and 1860. Margo uses these data, along with previously collected evidence on prices, to explore a variety of issues central to antebellum economic development. This volume makes a significant contribution to economic history by presenting a vast amount of previously unexamined data to advance the understanding of the history of wages and labor markets in the antebellum economy.

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