Author: United States. Women's Bureau
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 770

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Author: Canada. Department of Labour. Economics and Research Branch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Kathleen B. Jennison Lowrie
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Category : Canning and preserving
Languages : en
Pages : 1452

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Category : Employee fringe benefits
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Category : Employee fringe benefits
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Dearborn Leslie Woodcock Tentler University of Michigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198020287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Contains primary source material.

Author: International Labour Office
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309091349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core international labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting all relevant information into one central database. At the request of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Research Council's Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was charged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing the quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance, exploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making recommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. The result of the committee's work is in two partsâ€"this report and a database structure. Together, they offer a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor compliance with core labor standards. The report provides a comprehensive review of extant data sources, with emphasis on their relevance to defined labor standards, their utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance, and the cautions necessary to understand and use the quantitative information.

Author: Eileen Appelbaum
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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About 27.5 million Americans—nearly 24 percent of the labor force—earn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time year-round. Job ladders for these workers have been dismantled, limiting their ability to get ahead in today's labor market. Low-Wage America is the most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make in response to economic globalization, industry deregulation, and advances in information technology affect the lives of tens of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. Based on data from hundreds of establishments in twenty-five industries—including manufacturing, telecommunications, hospitality, and health care—the case studies document how firms' responses to economic restructuring often results in harsh working conditions, reduced benefits, and fewer opportunities for advancement. For instance, increased pressure for profits in newly consolidated hotel chains has led to cost-cutting strategies such as requiring maids to increase the number of rooms they clean by 50 percent. Technological changes in the organization of call centers—the ultimate "disposable workplace"—have led to monitoring of operators' work performance, and eroded job ladders. Other chapters show how the temporary staffing industry has provided paths to better work for some, but to dead end jobs for many others; how new technology has reorganized work in the back offices of banks, raising skill requirements for workers; and how increased competition from abroad has forced U.S. manufacturers to cut costs by reducing wages and speeding production. Although employers' responses to economic pressures have had a generally negative effect on frontline workers, some employers manage to resist this trend and still compete successfully. The benefits to workers of multi-employer training consortia and the continuing relevance of unions offer important clues about what public policy can do to support the job prospects of this vast, but largely overlooked segment of the American workforce. Low-Wage America challenges us to a national self-examination about the nature of low-wage work in this country and asks whether we are willing to tolerate the profound social and economic consequences entailed by these jobs. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Case Studies of Job Quality in Advanced Economies

Author: Jérôme Gautié
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Category : Labor market
Languages : en
Pages : 485

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