Degraded work : the struggle at the bottom of the labor market / Marc Doussard.
Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago, Degraded Work examines changes in two industries in which inferior job quality is assumed to be intrinsic: residential construction and food retail. Arguing that a growing service sector does not have to mean growing inequality, Marc Doussard proposes creative policy...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Boom in Poorly Paid and Precarious Jobs; 1. New Inequalities: The Deterioration of Local-Serving Industries; 2. Beyond Low Wages: The Problem of Degraded Work; 3. The City That Sweats Work: Growth and Inequality in Post-Fordist Chicago; 4. Oases in the Midst of Deserts: How Food Retailers Thrive in Disinvested Neighborhoods; 5. "They're Happy to Have a Job": Midsize Supermarkets and Degraded Work; 6. Building Degradation: Dangerous Work and Falling Pay during a Construction Boom; 7. A Perfectly Flexible Workforce: Day Labor in a Precarious Industry.
- 8. New Answers to New Problems: The Creative Work of Reversing DegradationConclusion: Building a Fair Labor Market in Postmanufacturing Economies.