About this title: The nature of work in America is changing in important ways. Blue-collar jobs are being eliminated because of increased competition from countries where wages are lower, while a greater economic role is being assumend by professional, technical, and clerical workers involved in developing complex technologies, providing services, and processing ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: American Sociological Assoc. and Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Date Published: c1990
ISBN-13:9780300056624ISBN:0300056621
Description: Fair. No dust jacket, as issued. Highlighting/Underlining. spine bent(cocked) & creased; name on half title page. Unknown printing. Illustrated by. viii, 378 p.; index; bibliography; 24 cm. American Sociological Association Presidential Series. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780300056624ISBN:0300056621
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "In this book, leading authorities discuss the changing nature of work in America. Among the provocative issues they raise are: what alienation from work means, what happens within the family when both husband and wife work, how work values are changing, whether work sharing is feasible in America, and what the future will be like for workers in advanced industrial countries. " This book has 378 pages. The text contains NO internal markings whatsoever. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780300045208ISBN:0300045204
Edition: First Printing, 1
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780300045208ISBN:0300045204
Description: Very Good/Good, light wear to DJ, cover and text are very clean, sound binding. Very good. Among the provocative issues raised are-precisely what alienation from work means, and what non-alienated forms of work might be like, what happens within the family when both husband and wife contribute to the family's income, how work values are changing, and whether the primacy of work in people's lives has begun to wane, why American society has failed to develop a full employment policy in the past, ... read more
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