Turbulence in the American workplace / Peter B. Doeringer [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doeringer, Peter B., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--United States.

Labor market.

Corporate reorganizations--United States.

Corporate reorganizations.

Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.

Labor supply.

Plant shutdowns--United States.

Plant shutdowns.

Manpower planning--United States.

Manpower planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions have cut sharply into profits and have forced downsizings and radical readjustments in America's workplaces. Workplace turbulence has resulted in lost jobs, declining incomes, and falling productivity for American labor. From the perspectives of business and labor, turbulence and its consequences is the key human resources issue for the last part of the twentieth century. In Turbulence in the American Workplace, a distinguished group of experts forc

Contents:

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Authors; 1 Workplace Turbulence and Workforce Preparedness; I: Turbulence and the Labor Force; II: Turbulence and Workplace Adjustment; III: Public and Private Policies; Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-243) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771068-9

1-280-60550-2

0-19-536238-1

OCLC:

252617586