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Crossing the Great Divide - Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy (Paperback)
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Crossing the Great Divide - Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy (Paperback)
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The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work
experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the
growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment
contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and the
emergence of opportunity-enhancing employee participation programs
reconfigured occupations, career paths, and labor market
opportunities. Vicki Smith analyzes this shift, asking how workers
navigated their way across the divide between bad jobs and good
jobs, between jobs organized hierarchically and jobs requiring
greater worker involvement, and between temporary and stable
work.Crossing the Great Divide uses original case study data from
four diverse organizational settings around the country. Smith
compares the situations of nonunionized, white-collar workers at a
photocopy service firm; unionized blue-collar workers in a
wood-products processing factory; temporary assemblers and clerical
workers in a high-tech firm; and unemployed managers, technical
workers, and professionals participating in a job search club. The
very different experiences revealed in Crossing the Great Divide
highlight the way diverse new relationships between companies and
their employees play out in workplaces, where new forms of work
organization simultaneously create opportunity, instability, and
risk for workers. Smith's goal is to construct a new framework of
employment that accommodates the unpredictability and turbulence of
the 21st century, but that is also "characterized at its core by
attachment, reward, protection, commitment, and dignity."
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