Listing 1 - 8 of 8
Sort by
Working together : how workplace bonds strengthen a diverse democracy
Author:
ISBN: 0195158296 0195158288 0198035950 1280502835 1602569797 9780198035954 9780195158281 9781280502835 019028918X 0197721214 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Cynthia Estlund explores the paradoxical nature - and the paramount importance - of workplace bonds in a diverse democratic society. It stakes a claim for the civic value of the millions of conversations that take place every day among co-workers.


Book
A New Deal for China's Workers?
Author:
ISBN: 9780674973299 0674973291 9780674971394 0674971396 0674973321 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book takes a comparative look at China's labor pains and the reforms taking shape in their wake. Some recent developments in China - rising strike levels, a surge of union organizing, and a raft of reforms - seem to echo the American New Deal experience. But even as China's leaders hope to replicate the prosperity and stability that flowed from the New Deal labor reforms, they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions that were the central actors in both spurring and carrying out those reforms. In China the specter of an independent labor movement both drives and constrains every facet of China's labor policy, both its reforms and its use of repression. If China's workers get their New Deal, it will be a New Deal with "Chinese characteristics," very unlike what workers in the West achieved in the mid-20th century.--


Book
Automation anxiety : why and how to save work
Author:
ISBN: 9780197566121 9780197566138 0197566138 019756612X 9780197566114 0197566111 9780197566107 0197566103 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"This book confronts the hotly-debated prospect of mounting job losses from automation, and the divergent hopes and fears that prospect evokes, and proposes a strategy for mitigating the losses and spreading the gains from shrinking demand for human labor. Leading economists have concluded that automation is already exacerbating inequality by destroying more decent middle-skill jobs than it is creating. As ongoing innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics continue to chip away at the comparative advantages of human labor in a range of work tasks, those innovations are likely to yield growing job losses in the foreseeable future. Faced with this prospect, the book argues that we should set our collective sights on ensuring broad access to adequate incomes, more free time, and decent remunerative work even in a world with less of it. That will require not a single "magic bullet" solution like universal basic income or a federal job guarantee, but rather a multifaceted strategy centered on conserving, creating, and spreading work. The book elaborates that strategy in the U.S. context, but much of it is broadly relevant to other advanced economies. And while the proposed strategy is designed to address a foreseeable future of job scarcity, it will also help to rebalance lives already plagued by either too much work or not enough and to counter both economic inequality and racial stratification. The proposed strategy makes sense here and now, and especially as we face up to a future of less work"--


Book
Regoverning the workplace : from self-regulation to co-regulation
Author:
ISBN: 0300124503 9780300124507 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven: Yale university press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Regulating labour in the wake of globalisation : new challenges, new institutions
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1472564243 1281449571 9786611449575 1847314066 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labour market outcomes in both Europe and North America - national regulation of labour standards and labour relations, coupled with collective bargaining - has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalisation. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labour unions and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labour regulation has become hotly contested. There have been efforts to move the locus of regulation downward to smaller units of governance, including firms themselves, upward to larger units such as regional federations and international organizations, and outward to non-governmental organizations and civil society. In this volume, labour relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labour regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


Book
Corporations and Citizenship

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Listing 1 - 8 of 8
Sort by