The future of work in Massachusetts / edited by Tom Juravich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Juravich, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employment forecasting.

Economic forecasting.

Massachusetts--Economic conditions.

Massachusetts.

Economic conditions.

Economic forecasting--Massachusetts.

Employment forecasting--Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

vi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2007]

Summary:

Across Massachusetts workers in virtually all sectors of the economy are facing reorganization, new technology, and the intensification of expectations and demands. With globalization, smaller employers are increasingly becoming part of large multinational companies, and workers are now forced to compete on a world stage. The result is that long-term, stable jobs are disappearing as work has become more temporary, part-time, and contingent. This volume offers a collection of original essays that explore the changing nature of work in the Commonwealth and its impact on workers, their families, and their communities.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors examine the impact of off-shoring and outsourcing and the growth of low-wage employment in the service sector, while also looking at the software industry and the future of high-tech jobs. The volume includes an overview of the economics of work in Massachusetts, an analysis of the experience of women and minorities in the workforce, and a case study of the fiscal crisis in Springfield and its relationship to employment issues. Several chapters address the challenges and prospects in the health care industry. Finally, a number of authors examine the complex ways in which these adjustments in the nature of work play out in families across the state, and how policy changes could help workers and their families adjust to these new environments.

Contents:

Introduction: the future of work in Massachusetts / Tom Juravich

An overview of the economy, work, and the people who do it in Massachusetts

The economy: a growing divide with uneven prospects / Mark Brenner

Low-wage women workers / Marlene Kim

Massachusetts in the global economy: production shifts, outsourcing, and deindustrialization

Capital mobility and job loss: corporate restructuring, production shifts, and outsourcing / Stephanie Luce and Kate Bronfenbrenner

Greater-Springfield deindustrialization: staggering job loss, a shrinking revenue base, and grinding decline / Robert Forrant

Beyond the Massachusetts miracle: the future of high tech

Software and Internet industry workers / Sarah Kuhn and Paula Rayman

Transitions of a displaced high-tech labor force / William Lazonick and Steven Quimby

Health care in the Commonwealth: challenges and prospects

Career ladders in the long-term-care sector: prospects for job mobility in the new economy / Randall P. Wilson

Work time, class, and gender in four medical occupations / Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, and Dana Huyser

More than a paycheck: work and family in Massachusetts

Work-family challenges for blue-collar parents / Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Heather Bourne, and Karen Meteyer

Love's labor's lost?: costs and benefits of paid family and medical leave / Randy Albelda and Alan Clayton-Matthews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781558496064

1558496068

9781558496071

1558496076

OCLC:

86110049