| The Last Good Job in America: Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture Contributor(s): Aronwitz, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742509753 ISBN-13: 9780742509757 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2001 Annotation: Aronowitz presents his latest, controversial thinking on how globalization brings these interconnections to broad public attention. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Sociology - General - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: 306.43 |
| LCCN: 2001019745 |
| Series: Critical Perspectives (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.17" W x 9.31" (1.02 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Money, jobs, careers, training--all are topics often overheard in the conversation of middle-class Americans. One of the nation's leading critics of education, the world of work, and the labor movement, Stanley Aronowitz shows how new technologies, labor, and education all are deeply intertwined in our culture and everyday lives. This book reflects Aronowitz's thinking at a time when globalization has brought these connections to broad public attention. Aronowitz argues for the decline of "the job" as the backbone, along with family, of American society. Despite high employment, low wages and job insecurity leave many families at or below the poverty line. The career instability previously experienced mostly by blue-collar workers has spread to middle managers and high-level executives caught in the rapid movement of capital and technologies. In light of these facts, Aronowitz argues for a new social contract between employers and workers. |