Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another series of management fads or ruses designed to get more out of workers without giving them anything ...
Despite formidable obstacles, a small but growing number of U.S. companies rccognize that today's domestic and international markets require them to transform their production process. On the basis of more than ten years of survey data and the evidence of case studies, Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt analyze the experiences of these companies. ...
About 27.5 million Americans -- nearly 24 percent of the labor force -- earn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time year-round. Job ladders for these workers have been dismantled, limiting their ability to get ahead in today?s labor market. LOW-WAGE AMERICA is the most extensive study to ...
The most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make affect the lives of tens of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution.
This volume brings together an international group of contributors to explore the impacts of structural economic change and technological progress on labour markets. The contributors goal is to present an in-depth comparative study of the ways in which different national economies have adjusted to structural changes like the shift to service-based ...
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