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The sorrows of work
Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. The temptation is often just to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there is a range of well-embedded and intriguing reasons why work proves demoralising, including the evolution of modern work, the role of technology and the mechanics of the economy. This surprisingly cheering book offers us an invigorating perspective over our working lives and what we might do at times when our work challenges us almost unbearably.--amazon.com.
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Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy
Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion of the standard (industrial) employment relationship and an increase in precarious work - work which is poorly paid and insecure. Women perform a disproportionate amount of precarious work. This collection of original essays by leading scholars on labour law and women's work explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, and evaluates the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of legal regulation.The book provides a comparative perspective by furnishing case studies from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Quebec, Sweden, the UK, and the US, as well as the international and supranational context through essays that focus on the IMF, the ILO, and the EU. Common themes and concepts thread throughout the essays, which grapple with the legal and public policy challenges posed by women's precarious work.
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Indivisible : how to forge our differences into a stronger future
\"Denise Hamilton has always believed in the power and promise of a word she learned as a schoolgirl: \"indivisible.\" In her groundbreaking debut, she challenges readers to move beyond current notions of diversity and inclusion to build communities, workplaces, and relationships that live up to that word. She urges us to reexamine long-held beliefs and habits and to dismantle hierarchies that shape our current society. If we want to repair the fraying stitches that bind us together, if we want to build a truly close-knit collective, we cannot settle for our present approach. It's time to recalibrate and identify a goal higher than inclusivity-the goal of indivisibility. As a nationally recognized DEI leader, Hamilton shares accessible, personal stories and offers self-examination questions, intentional action steps, and journal prompts. While the book has a focus on business and leadership, the lessons within can transform our professional and personal lives\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs provides an insightful analysis of how and why precarious employment is gaining ground in the labor market and the role these developments have played in the decline of the middle class. Kalleberg shows that by the 1970s, government deregulation, global competition, and the rise of the service sector gained traction, while institutional protections for workers—such as unions and minimum-wage legislation—weakened. Together, these forces marked the end of postwar security for American workers. The composition of the labor force also changed significantly; the number of dual-earner families increased, as did the share of the workforce comprised of women, non-white, and immigrant workers. Of these groups, blacks, Latinos, and immigrants remain concentrated in the most precarious and low-quality jobs, with educational attainment being the leading indicator of who will earn the highest wages and experience the most job security and highest levels of autonomy and control over their jobs and schedules. Kalleberg demonstrates, however, that building a better safety net—increasing government responsibility for worker health care and retirement, as well as strengthening unions—can go a long way toward redressing the effects of today’s volatile labor market. There is every reason to expect that the growth of precarious jobs—which already make up a significant share of the American job market—will continue. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs deftly shows that the decline in U.S. job quality is not the result of fluctuations in the business cycle, but rather the result of economic restructuring and the disappearance of institutional protections for workers. Only government, employers and labor working together on long-term strategies—including an expanded safety net, strengthened legal protections, and better training opportunities—can help reverse this trend.
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The Changing Nature of Work
Although there is great debate about how work is changing, there is a clear consensus that changes are fundamental and ongoing. The Changing Nature of Work examines the evidence for change in the world of work. The committee provides a clearly illustrated framework for understanding changes in work and these implications for analyzing the structure of occupations in both the civilian and military sectors.
This volume explores the increasing demographic diversity of the workforce, the fluidity of boundaries between lines of work, the interdependent choices for how work is structured-and ultimately, the need for an integrated systematic approach to understanding how work is changing. The book offers a rich array of data and highlighted examples on:
Markets, technology, and many other external conditions affecting the nature of work.
Research findings on American workers and how they feel about work.
Downsizing and the trend toward flatter organizational hierarchies.
Autonomy, complexity, and other aspects of work structure.
The committee reviews the evolution of occupational analysis and examines the effectiveness of the latest systems in characterizing current and projected changes in civilian and military work. The occupational structure and changing work requirements in the Army are presented as a case study.
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Forging bonds in a global workforce : build rapport, camaraderie, and optimal performance no matter the time zone
\"Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship -- detailed in so many books about global work and cultural intelligence -- don't cut it anymore. Business professionals working across national and cultural boundaries need to form authentic relationships that drive rapport, camaraderie, and optimal team performance -- and Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce provides the most thorough and practical approach to date on this issue. Renowned academics in the field of intercultural relationship-building, Andy Molinsky and Melissa Hahn deliver an easy-to-understand approach to help you supercharge your global relationship-building skills, including a focus on Mindset: Conquer hidden biases that can interfere with relationship building and learn the six specific ways relationship building differs across cultures; Beginnings: Master key cultural differences in small talk and the initial stages of finding common ground; and Deepening: Learn to diagnose the local language of trust, develop creative ways to build relationships on global teams, and keep disagreements from escalating into conflict. Business success today requires deeper engagement than ever. Apply the lessons of Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce to build lasting connections and drive career and organizational success in a truly global economy.\"--Goodreads.
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Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers
Mirroring a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations, the U.S. is experiencing a change in its demographic structure known as population aging. Concern about the aging population tends to focus on the adequacy of Medicare and Social Security, retirement of older Americans, and the need to identify policies, programs, and strategies that address the health and safety needs of older workers.
Older workers differ from their younger counterparts in a variety of physical, psychological, and social factors. Evaluating the extent, causes, and effects of these factors and improving the research and data systems necessary to address the health and safety needs of older workers may significantly impact both their ability to remain in the workforce and their well being in retirement.
Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers provides an image of what is currently known about the health and safety needs of older workers and the research needed to encourage social polices that guarantee older workers a meaningful share of the nation's work opportunities.
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Work-life bloom : how to nurture a team that flourishes
\"In Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, award-winning author Dan Pontefract contends that a thriving workplace isn't about employee engagement levels, nor is it predicated on your team members bringing their \"best selves\" to work. Instead, it requires you to support the people you manage so they can be their best in work and life. Just as a flower needs the right mix of sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow, your people need the right mix of work-life factors to create a fulfilling and harmonious existence. Pontefract introduces a new leadership paradigm focused on twelve key work-life factors that determine whether your team members' gardens are able to grow. Drawing upon primary global research, interviews, and personal experiences, Pontefract delivers a timely blueprint for leaders to cultivate work-life ecosystems where individuals don't just survive--they bloom.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Going Remote
A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to
remote work can change all of our lives for the better. As
COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American
office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of
infection and prevent spread of the virus. In the aftermath of this
shift, a significant number of workers remain at least partially
remote. It is clear that this massive experiment we were forced to
run will have long-term consequences, changing the shape of our
personal and work lives, as well as the urban landscape around us.
How will the rise of telecommuting affect workers' quality of life,
the profitability of firms, and the economic geography of our
cities and suburbs? Going Remote addresses the
uncertainties and possibilities of this moment. In Going
Remote , urban economist Matthew E. Kahn takes readers on a
journey through the new remote-work economy, revealing how people
will configure their lives when they have more freedom to choose
where they work and how they live. Melding ideas from labor
economics, family economics, the theory of the firm, and urban
economics, Kahn paints a realistic picture of the future for
workers, firms, and urban areas, big and small. As Kahn shows, the
rise of remote work presents especially valuable opportunities for
flexibility and equity in the lives of women, minorities, and young
people, and even for those whose jobs do not allow them to work
from home. Uncovering key implications for our quality of life,
Going Remote demonstrates how the rise of remote work can
significantly improve the standard of living for millions of people
by expanding personal freedom, changing the arc of how we live,
work, and play.
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