Title
Nice Work If You Can Get It : Life and Labor in Precarious Times / Andrew Ross.
ISBN
9780814777398
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814776292.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HF5382.55 .R67 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.62
Summary
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIs 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 of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national, class, and racial lines-from the emerging "creative class" of high-wage professionals to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers. Developing the idea of "precarious livelihoods" to describe this new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in developed nations-comparing the creative industry policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as developing countries-by examining the quickfire transformation of China's labor market. He also responds to the challenge of sustainability, assessing the promise of "green jobs" through restorative alliances between labor advocates and environmentalists.Ross argues that regardless of one's views on labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new precarious and "indefinite life,&" and the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge society emerges in these pages-less skewed toward flexploitation and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and renewable.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis ; ; 8
Available in Other Form
print 9780814776292
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I CREATIVE WORKERS AND RENT-SEEKING
1 The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policymaking in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States
2 China's Next Cultural Revolution?
3 The Olympic Goose That Lays the Golden Egg
II SUSTAINABILITY AND THE GROUND STAFF
4 Teamsters, Turtles, and Tainted Toys
5 Learning from San Ysidro
III INSTRUMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE CAPITALISM
6 The Copyfight over Intellectual Property
7 The Rise of the Global University
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
