The future of work in Massachusetts /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Juravich, Tom
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2007]
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the future of work in Massachusetts / Tom Juravich
  • An overview of the economy, work, and the people who do it in Massachusetts
  • The economy: a growing divide with uneven prospects / Mark Brenner
  • Low-wage women workers / Marlene Kim
  • Massachusetts in the global economy: production shifts, outsourcing, and deindustrialization
  • Capital mobility and job loss: corporate restructuring, production shifts, and outsourcing / Stephanie Luce and Kate Bronfenbrenner
  • Greater-Springfield deindustrialization: staggering job loss, a shrinking revenue base, and grinding decline / Robert Forrant
  • Beyond the Massachusetts miracle: the future of high tech
  • Software and Internet industry workers / Sarah Kuhn and Paula Rayman
  • Transitions of a displaced high-tech labor force / William Lazonick and Steven Quimby
  • Health care in the Commonwealth: challenges and prospects
  • Career ladders in the long-term-care sector: prospects for job mobility in the new economy / Randall P. Wilson
  • Work time, class, and gender in four medical occupations / Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, and Dana Huyser
  • More than a paycheck: work and family in Massachusetts
  • Work-family challenges for blue-collar parents / Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Heather Bourne, and Karen Meteyer
  • Love's labor's lost?: costs and benefits of paid family and medical leave / Randy Albelda and Alan Clayton-Matthews.