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SAGE PUBLISHING Changing Contours Of Work Jobs And Opportunities In The New Economy by Stephen A. Sweet
Undergraduate and postgraduate students of the sociology of work and employment. List of ExhibitsAbout the AuthorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Mapping the Contours of WorkScenes From the New EconomyCulture and WorkStructure and WorkAgency and CareersChapter 2: New Products, New Ways of Working, and the New EconomyA Postindustrial Society?The End of Mass Production?New Skills?New Cultures of Control?The End of Organized Labor?A New Global Economy?Chapter 3: Economic Inequality, Social Mobility, and the New EconomyAre Economic Divides Narrowing or Widening in the United States?Are Career Pathways Opening or Closing?Is the Global Economy Becoming More Flat or Bumpy?Chapter 4: Whose Jobs Are SecureRisk and Work: Historical and Comparative ViewsHow Insecure Are Workers in the New Economy?The Costs of Job Loss and InsecurityResponding to Insecurity: Old and New CareersChapter 5: A Fair Day's Work? The Intensity and Scheduling of Jobs in the New EconomyTime, Intensity, and WorkHow Much Should We Work? Comparative FrameworksWhy Are Americans Working So Much?Nonstandard Schedules: Jobs in a 24/7 EconomyHow Americans Deal With OverworkChapter 6: Gender Chasms in the New EconomyWhen Did Home Work Become Nonwork?Women's Participation in the Paid Labor Force in AmericaGender Inequalities in CompensationSocialization, Career Selection, and Career PathsInterpersonal Discrimination in the WorkplaceStructural Dimensions of Gender DiscriminationStrategies to Bridge the Care Gaps: InternationalChapter 7: Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Legacies of the Past, Problems in the PresentHistories of Race, Ethnicity, and WorkMagnitude of Racial Inequality in the New EconomyIntergenerational Transmission of ResourcesGeographic Distribution of Race and Work OpportunityRacial Prejudice and DiscriminationRacialized JobsRace, Ethnicity, and Work: Social PolicyChapter 8: Reshaping the Contours of the New EconomyOpportunity ChasmsAgents of ChangeAppendix: Legislative and Regulatory Time Line of Worker Rights and Protections in the United StatesReferencesIndex