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Working Scared (Or Not at All) - The Lost Decade, Great Recession, and Restoring the Shattered American Dream (Hardcover, New)
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Working Scared (Or Not at All) - The Lost Decade, Great Recession, and Restoring the Shattered American Dream (Hardcover, New)
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At the end of the 20th century, with the economy booming and
unemployment at historic lows, the American economy was a
job-producing marvel. The first decade of the 21st century was
entirely different as the worst economy in 70 years, the Great
Recession, crushed the lives of tens of millions of workers and
their families, forestalled careers, scrapped hopes for a college
education, delayed retirements, and foreclosed family homes.
American workers experienced the best and worst of times and have
endured an entire "lost decade" of high unemployment, stagnant or
declining incomes, and anxiety. Working Scared draws upon nearly
25,000 interviews with employed and unemployed Americans conducted
from, 1998 to 2012. These "voices" of American workers tell a
compelling story about wrenching structural changes and recessions
during one of the most volatile periods in U.S economic history.
This book represents one of the most comprehensive social science
research portraits of the views of American workers' about their
jobs, the workplace, and government's role in the labor market.
Working Scared will help citizens, policy makers, educators,
business, union, and community leaders better understand what is
happening to the United States workforce. It also describes the
essential national priorities and policies that will assist
frustrated, angry and scared American workers and the reforms that
will help restore the American dream of secure employment and
inter-generational progress.
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