Rethinking work / [compiled by] H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services.
From debates around the high pressures of the corporate work environment to those around the present day labor movement, discussions about work prevail in popular thinking and the media. Do the wealthiest, most powerful corporations today reward their white-collar employees with outstanding vacation...
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| Language: | English |
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Amenia, NY :
Grey House Publishing,
2016.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 88, no. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Automation and technology in the workplace: technology and the workplace
- The robots are coming for Wall Street / Nathaniel Popper
- What UPS drivers can tell us about the automated future of work / Leerom Segal, Aaron Goldstein, Jay Goldman, and Rahaf Harfoush
- Tech slowdown threatens the American dream / David Rotman
- Class struggle in robot utopia / Peter Frase
- The proposed "right to disconnect" after work hours is welcome, but not enough / Gillian Symon
- Managing the high-intensity workplace / Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan
- China is building a robot army of model workers / Will Knight
- 2. Work/life balance and the meaning of work: the working life
- Failure of the phrase "work-life balance" / Anne-Marie Slaughter
- What makes us feel good about our work? / Dan Ariely
- Rethinking work / Barry Schwartz
- Tapping into multigenerational talent / Tammy Erickson
- What it really takes to find meaningful work / Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
- Working from home isn't for everyone / L.V. Anderson
- How on-call and irregular scheduling harm the American workforce / Lonnie Golden
- 3.The gender pay gap, wage stagnation, and income inequality: equal work and equal pay
- Get paid what you're worth / Elizabeth Weingarten
- 8 big problems for women in the workplace / Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett
- The causes of income inequality / Catherine Sellers
- From belief to outrage: the decline of the middle class reaches the next American town / Eli Saslow
- $15 an hour won't help these workers / Michelle Chen
- Could knowing how much your coworker earns help close the gender pay gap? / Nancy Modesitt
- Middle class work deserves middle class wages / Secretary of Labor, Tom Perez
- New overtime rules a boon for middle-class workers / Winston Ross
- 4. Collaboration, new models of productivity, and the human future of work: the working world of today and tomorrow
- Quit your job / Barbara Bradley Hagerty
- Less work, more time / Madeleine Schwartz
- The seeds of a new labor movement / Harold Meyerson
- You really don't need to work so much / Tim Wu
- A world without work / Derek Thompson
- What Google learned from its quest to build the perfect team / Charles Duhigg
- Human work in the robotic future: policy for the age of automation / Andrew McAfee and Erin Brynjolfsson.