Risky Business - Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14605-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 186 g

Reihe: A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity. It proves that the health of the labor market is not a transitory issue brought low by the factors of recession, but a serious concern reflecting deep structural problems in American society. In this book, economists, sociologists, and public policy and political scientists reveal how the American labor market has grown particularly problematic for new job-seekers, trends that are not obvious when averaging the entire population. The contributors to this volume focus instead on changing job patterns between generations, which show that the job prospects for young Americans are more short-term than their predecessors, and that white-collar managers, once members of the most privileged sector, are now experiencing a faster negative rate of change. As this book makes clear, Americans will soon face epic job losses, irreversible trends in downward mobility, and long-lasting economic insecurity-politically polarizing outcomes that will cause even more anxiety among families. Encompassing a number of different disciplines, the prominent scholars of Laid Off, Laid Low provide a full analysis of today's most pressing economic issues.

Contributors: Sheldon Danziger and Ben Keys: "Unemployment Risk among Low Wage Workers: 1970-2000"; Hank Farber: "Employment Insecurity: The Decline in Worker-Firm Attachment in the United States"; Elizabeth Jacobs and Katherine Newman: "Rising Angst? Change and Stability in Perceptions of Insecurity"; Philipp Rehm: "Partisan Politics and Labor Market Risks"; Ann Huff Stevens: "Holding Firm: The Stability of Long-Term Employment in the US, 1969-2004"

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / High AnxietyKatherine S. Newman

Chapter OneShort(er) Shrift / The Decline in Worker-Firm Attachment in the United StatesHenry S. Farber

Chapter TwoNot So Fast / Long-Term Employment in the United States, 1969-2004Ann Huff Stevens

Chapter ThreeHurt the Worst / The Risk of Unemployment among Disadvantaged and Advantaged Male Workers, 1968-2003Benjamin J. Keys and Sheldon Danziger

Chapter FourRising Angst? / change and Stability in Perceptions of Economic InsecurityElisabeth Jacobs and Katherine S. Newman

Chapter FiveBallot Boxing / Partisan Politics and Labor Market RisksPhilipp Rehm

List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine S. Newman is the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, the director of the Joint Doctoral Programs in Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and Social Policy, and the director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of eight books on inequality, poverty, and mobility in American society.