Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis)
By Andrew Ross.
Description
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIs job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream?In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers acro...
ISBN(s)
0814776299, 9780814776292
