Sustaining the New Economy : Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age / Martin Carnoy.
2022
HD6331 ǂb C279 2000eb
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Title
Sustaining the New Economy : Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age / Martin Carnoy.
Author
Carnoy, Martin, author.
ISBN
9780674029224
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (250 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674029224 doi
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HD6331 ǂb C279 2000eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.10973
Summary
This book explores the growing tension between the requirements of employers for a flexible work force and the ability of parents and communities to nurture their children and provide for their health, welfare, and education. Global competition and the spread of information technology are forcing businesses to engage in rapid, worldwide production changes, customized marketing, and just-in-time delivery. They are reorganizing work around decentralized management, work differentiation, and short-term and part-time employment. Increasingly, workers must be able to move across firms and even across types of work, as jobs get redefined. But there is a stiff price being paid for this labor market flexibility. It separates workers from the social institutions-family, long-term jobs, and stable communities-that sustained economic expansions in the past and supported the growth and development of the next generation. This is exacerbated by the continuing movement of women into paid work, which puts a greater strain on the family's ability to care for and rear children. Unless government fosters the development of new, integrative institutions to support the new world of work, the author argues, the conditions required for long-term economic growth and social stability will be threatened. He concludes by laying out a framework for creating such institutions.
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Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. Our Work in a Changing Economy
2. New Technology and Job Markets
3. The Transformations of Work in the New Global Economy
4. The New Family and Flexible Work
5. Redefining Community in a Flexible Economy
6. Sustaining the New Economy
References
Index
Contents
Preface
1. Our Work in a Changing Economy
2. New Technology and Job Markets
3. The Transformations of Work in the New Global Economy
4. The New Family and Flexible Work
5. Redefining Community in a Flexible Economy
6. Sustaining the New Economy
References
Index