New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America

by Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, Howard Wial

Book Overview

Three quarters of the American workforce is now employed in services, a substantial portion in low-paying, dead-end jobs. Can the service economy do as well by the American worker as the old manufacturing economy? Can the widely shared prosperity that accompanied steady increases in productivity and performance in manufacturing be replicated in the services? They can and they will, the authors of this timely book contend, but only if outmoded policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486580
• ISBN13: 9780801486586
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

essential reading for economic policy

Everybody knows that the US economy is generating a lot of low-wage, dead-end service jobs. Now there's a book that knows what to do about it. This book is chock full of cheap, practical, useful ways of turning dead-end jobs into careers, linking jobs to training, facilitating employee organization. Should be part of the platform for Republicans and Democrats.