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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.

La investigación durante las últimas tres décadas muestra sistemáticamente los malos resultados en educación y empleo de los jóvenes que abandonan el sistema de protección en Inglaterra. Los datos indican niveles más bajos de éxito escolar y participación de los jóvenes de más de 16 años en y tras la protección en comparación con otros jóvenes. Sugieren además un impacto duradero cuando estos jóvenes se convierten en adultos en mayor riesgo de exclusión, con mayor presencia en grupos marginales como los parados de larga duración, indigentes, población de prisiones y adultos con problemas de salud mental. Este artículo muestra la reciente investigación realizada con jóvenes procedentes del sistema de protección para explorar los retos a los que se enfrentan a la hora de encontrar, mantener y participar en educación, trabajo y formación. Muestra que el apoyo de iniciativas formales e informales para dirigir los retos prácticos, emocionales y financieros es crucial para un tránsito exitoso a la vida adulta y que la motivación y autoconfianza de los propios jóvenes son factores significativos a la hora de aumentar y mantener su participación. Descriptores: • educación • Empleo • formación • jóvenes • participación

La investigación durante las últimas tres décadas muestra sistemáticamente los malos resultados en educación y empleo de los jóvenes que abandonan el sistema de protección en Inglaterra. Los datos indican niveles más bajos de éxito escolar y participación de los jóvenes de más de 16 años en y tras la protección en comparación con otros jóvenes. Sugieren además un impacto duradero cuando estos jóvenes se convierten en adultos en mayor riesgo de exclusión, con mayor presencia en grupos marginales como los parados de larga duración, indigentes, población de prisiones y adultos con problemas de salud mental. Este artículo muestra la reciente investigación realizada con jóvenes procedentes del sistema de protección para explorar los retos a los que se enfrentan a la hora de encontrar, mantener y participar en educación, trabajo y formación. Muestra que el apoyo de iniciativas formales e informales para dirigir los retos prácticos, emocionales y financieros es crucial para un tránsito exitoso a la vida adulta y que la motivación y autoconfianza de los propios jóvenes son factores significativos a la hora de aumentar y mantener su participación.Descriptores: educación Empleo formación jóvenes participación

La transición de los jóvenes al mundo laboral y su formación representa un desafío de la sociedad actual, más aún entre los jóvenes en situación de vulnerabilidad social. En este trabajo se presenta un estudio dirigido a analizar las atribuciones sobre el estudio y la inserción laboral de una muestra de jóvenes vulnerables. Para ello, se ha realizado un diseño de investigación integrador que contempla un estudio cuantitativo y otro cualitativo. Para el primero, se aplicó un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc a 493 jóvenes en situación de vulnerabilidad pertenecientes a todas las comunidades autónomas. Para el segundo, se realizaron entrevistas a diecinueve jóvenes participantes en programas socioeducativos orientados a favorecer su empleabilidad e inserción laboral, desarrollados por siete entidades sociales de Madrid y Andalucía. Los resultados revelan el tipo de beneficios que atribuyen al estudio y la inserción laboral, así como que existe relación entre ambas. Descriptores: • educación • Empleo • investigación • juventud • vulnerabilidad social

This article analyses the quality of artistic and cultural work in Colombia during the period 2018–2024, based on two composite indices—objective and subjective—constructed using anonymised microdata from the Great Integrated Household Survey (GEIH) conducted by DANE. The adopted methodology enables comparisons with similar studies in other contexts. The results show that the quality of artistic and cultural employment is low and falls far short of international standards defined for decent work. While many workers express symbolic satisfaction with their activity, the material conditions are precarious and reveal a labour structure with no prospects for improvement.

La transición de los jóvenes al mundo laboral y su formación representa un desafío de la sociedad actual, más aún entre los jóvenes en situación de vulnerabilidad social. En este trabajo se presenta un estudio dirigido a analizar las atribuciones sobre el estudio y la inserción laboral de una muestra de jóvenes vulnerables. Para ello, se ha realizado un diseño de investigación integrador que contempla un estudio cuantitativo y otro cualitativo. Para el primero, se aplicó un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc a 493 jóvenes en situación de vulnerabilidad pertenecientes a todas las comunidades autónomas. Para el segundo, se realizaron entrevistas a diecinueve jóvenes participantes en programas socioeducativos orientados a favorecer su empleabilidad e inserción laboral, desarrollados por siete entidades sociales de Madrid y Andalucía. Los resultados revelan el tipo de beneficios que atribuyen al estudio y la inserción laboral, así como que existe relación entre ambas. The transition of young people into employment and training is a challenge in today's society, even among young people in situations of social vulnerability. In this project a study to review allocations on the study and the employment of vulnerable youth sample is presented. To do this, there has been an integrative research design that includes a quantitative and a qualitative study. For the former, an ad hoc questionnaire was applied to 493 vulnerable young people from all regions. For the second, interviews were conducted with nineteen young participants in social and educational programs aimed at improving employability and employment, developed by seven social institutions of Madrid and Andalusia. The results reveal the type of benefits attributed to the study and employment, and that there is a relationship between them.

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIs 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.Ross argues that regardless of one's views on labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new precarious and indefinite life,and and the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge society emerges in these pages - less skewed toward flexploitation and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and renewable.

Throughout the history of humanity, technique, science and technology have played a fundamental role, not only because of the benefits that their development has brought with it —either because individuals can see them for themselves, or because the externality which they make up has forced them to be seen that way— but also because of their effects, direct and indirect, or simply because such advances cannot even be accessed, because they are not for everyone. The automation of the operational workforce is one of these scientific-technological advances that have taken the essence of technology to a new level, technifying life, social interactions and the functions performed by humans. The end is to dispense with humanity, where everything and everyone is replaceable, where the care of the other is not conceived. Consumption, increased productivity and the attainment of wealth for a few are promoted. Its consequences are the increase in poverty, the widening of the wealth gap and technological illiteracy, among other detrimental effects. This writing analyzes the automation of employment, the external factors that have influenced technological progress and the aspect that few recognize about automation: the displacement of the human being at the hands of technology, its already evident consequences, and the possible future.

Objective: The objective of this research is to improve the matching between labor supply and demand in Colombia by using machine learning techniques and the unique framework of classification of occupations for Colombia (CUOC). This framework allows us to enhance the alignment between resumes and job offers, helping job seekers obtain personalized job recommendations according to their profiles. Methods: This proposal uses a combination of clustering, classification, and collaborative filtering algorithms to obtain the ten best available vacancies for a particular resume. Standardization of resumes and job offers was performed during the preprocessing stage. We utilized natural language algorithms to extract attributes from the CUOC framework. For the training process, we initially employed the K-Means algorithm to group the attributes of the CUOC framework. Afterward, we use KNN, DNN, and AdaBoost as classification algorithms to develop a model that best correlates a resume with the group of vacancies. Finally, a web application was developed using the Django framework, providing a user-friendly interface for job seekers to receive recommendations based on the model outcomes. Results: The best model was selected based on accuracy and processing time. The results indicate that the highest accuracy and recommendation performance are achieved using the CUOC framework, generating a recommendation of the top 10 vacancies based on their similarity level.

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947 , Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers: economic history of modern India rural labour labour-intensive industrialization women and industrialization. Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolonial class analysis - Roy formulates a new view. Commercialization, surplus labour and uncertainty are seen as equally important and the end result reconciles the increasingly opposed view of economists and historians. 1. Introduction 2. Economic History of Modern India 3. Economic History of Modern India: Defining the Link 4. Rural Labour and 'De-Peasantization' 5. Rural Labour: Lessons of Wage Data 6. Was there an Industrial Decline in the early Nineteenth Century? 7. Labour-Intensive Industrialization 8. Women and Industrialization 9. Conclusion