The fissured workplace : why work became so bad for so many and what can be done to improve it / David Weil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weil, David, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States.

Labor.

United States.

Industrial relations--United States.

Industrial relations.

Manpower planning--United States.

Manpower planning.

Quality of work life--United States.

Quality of work life.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Vignettes from the Modern Workplace 1

1 The Fissured Workplace and Its Consequences 7

2 Employment in a Pre-fissured World 28

3 Why Fissure? 43

4 Wage Determination in a Fissured Workplace 76

Part II The Forms and Consequences of the Fissured Workplace 93

5 The Subcontracted Workplace 99

6 Fissuring and Franchising 122

7 Supply Chains and the Fissured Workplace 159

Part III Mending the Fissured Workplace 179

8 Rethinking Responsibility 183

9 Rethinking Enforcement 214

10 Fixing Broken Windows 243

11 The Fissured Economy 268

12 A Path Forward 286.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Weil, David, 1961- Fissured workplace : why work became so bad for so many and what can be done to improve it.

ISBN:

9780674726123

OCLC:

878139333

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.