Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times

by Andrew Ross

Book Overview

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

A survey into an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven global development

Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that--a dream?

In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814776914
• ISBN13: 9780814776919
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"