Rethinking work / [compiled by] H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

H.W. Wilson Company.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 88, no. 4.

The reference shelf ; volume 88, number 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States.

Labor.

Labor movement.

United States.

Work environment--United States.

Work environment.

Corporate culture--United States.

Corporate culture.

Job satisfaction--United States.

Job satisfaction.

Labor movement--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Reference shelf: Rethinking work

Place of Publication:

Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

From debates around the high pressures of the corporate work environment to those around the present day labor movement, discussions about work prevail in popular thinking and the media. Do the wealthiest, most powerful corporations today reward their white-collar employees with outstanding vacation and family-leave packages or exploit their workforce by demanding unreasonable hours and unrealistic goals? And how do their blue-collar employees fare? This volume will explore these questions as well as other current topics-from such rising trends as employees working from home and new discussions around "work-life balance" to reports on how the US economy has fared in the years following the "great recession."

Contents:

1. Automation and technology in the workplace: technology and the workplace

The robots are coming for Wall Street / Nathaniel Popper

What UPS drivers can tell us about the automated future of work / Leerom Segal, Aaron Goldstein, Jay Goldman, and Rahaf Harfoush

Tech slowdown threatens the American dream / David Rotman

Class struggle in robot utopia / Peter Frase

The proposed "right to disconnect" after work hours is welcome, but not enough / Gillian Symon

Managing the high-intensity workplace / Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan

China is building a robot army of model workers / Will Knight

2. Work/life balance and the meaning of work: the working life

Failure of the phrase "work-life balance" / Anne-Marie Slaughter

What makes us feel good about our work? / Dan Ariely

Rethinking work / Barry Schwartz

Tapping into multigenerational talent / Tammy Erickson

What it really takes to find meaningful work / Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Working from home isn't for everyone / L.V. Anderson

How on-call and irregular scheduling harm the American workforce / Lonnie Golden

3. The gender pay gap, wage stagnation, and income inequality: equal work and equal pay

Get paid what you're worth / Elizabeth Weingarten

8 big problems for women in the workplace / Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett

The causes of income inequality / Catherine Sellers

From belief to outrage: the decline of the middle class reaches the next American town / Eli Saslow

$15 an hour won't help these workers / Michelle Chen

Could knowing how much your coworker earns help close the gender pay gap? / Nancy Modesitt

Middle class work deserves middle class wages / Secretary of Labor, Tom Perez

New overtime rules a boon for middle-class workers / Winston Ross

4. Collaboration, new models of productivity, and the human future of work: the working world of today and tomorrow

Quit your job / Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Less work, more time / Madeleine Schwartz

The seeds of a new labor movement / Harold Meyerson

You really don't need to work so much / Tim Wu

A world without work / Derek Thompson

What Google learned from its quest to build the perfect team / Charles Duhigg

Human work in the robotic future: policy for the age of automation / Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.

Title from title screen.

Other Format:

Print version: Rethinking work.

ISBN:

9781682170663

1682170667

9781682170625

1682170624

OCLC:

974374798

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.