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Global wine production totaled roughly 27 billion liters in 2012.
The European Union (EU) dominates world production, accounting for
nearly 60% of all wine produced each year. France, Italy, and Spain
are among the principal EU wine-producing countries. This book
provides an overview of issues pertaining to the U.S. wine industry
within ongoing U.S. trade negotiations in the proposed
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the proposed Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); presents the outlook for
wine production, trade, consumption, and stocks for the EU-28;
provides a statistical wine report; and examines the international
wine market.
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries
including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term
healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking.
Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other
industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many.
Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and
home construction live from paycheck to paycheck, juggling multiple
jobs with variable schedules, few benefits, and limited prospects
for advancement. These bad outcomes are produced by a range of
industry-specific factors, including intense competition,
outsourcing and subcontracting, failure to enforce employment
standards, overt discrimination, outmoded production and management
systems, and inadequate worker voice. In this volume, experts look
for ways to improve job quality in the low-wage sector. They offer
in-depth examinations of specific industries-long-term healthcare,
hospitals and outpatient care, retail, residential construction,
restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking-that together
account for more than half of all low-wage jobs. The book's sector
view allows the contributors to address industry-specific
variations that shape operational choices about work. Drawing on
deep industry knowledge, they consider important distinctions
within and between these industries; the financial, institutional,
and structural incentives that shape the choices employers make;
and what it would take to make more jobs better jobs. Contributors
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, Dale Belman, Julie Brockman,
Francoise Carre, Susan Helper, Matt Hinkel, Tashlin Lakhani, JaeEun
Lee, Raphael Martins, Russell Ormiston, Paul Osterman, Can Ouyang,
Chris Tilly, Steve Viscelli
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