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" Nice work if you can get it : "
Andrew Ross.
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BL
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961821
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b716191
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Ross, Andrew,1956-
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Nice work if you can get it : : life and labor in precarious times /\ Andrew Ross.
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New York :: New York University Press,, ©2009.
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NYU series in social and cultural analysis
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1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
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0814776353
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: 0814777392
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: 1441615687
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: 9780814777398
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: 9781441615688
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0814776299
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9780814776292
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index.
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| Contents
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The mercurial career of creative industries: policymaking in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States -- China's next cultural revolution? -- The Olympic goose that lays the golden egg -- Teamsters, turtles, and tainted toys -- Learning from San Ysidro -- The copyright fight over intellectual property -- The rise of the global university -- Conclusions: maps and charters.
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Is 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.
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Employment in foreign countries.
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Foreign workers.
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Globalization.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Labor.
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Employment in foreign countries.
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Foreign workers.
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Globalization.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor Industrial Relations.
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331.6/2
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HF5382.55.R67 2009eb
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