The Mismatched Worker

By Arne L. Kalleberg

Book Overview

Each chapter frames a different type of mismatch and explores how each mismatch affects workers and their families. In addition to providing new insights into contemporary labor, The Mismatched Worker also suggests social strategies that might alleviate worker dissatisfaction while making organizations more efficient.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393976432
• ISBN13: 9780393976434
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

US policies on work aren't working

In this timely & provocative book, Arne Kalleberg brings together a host of research findings on mismatches between workers and their jobs. Mismatches occur when people are under- or over-qualified for jobs, when people can't get to good jobs because of where they live, when workers must work shorter or longer hours than they would like, when workers don't earn enough for a living wage, and when the demands of work disrupt...