"The Many Futures of Work is a collection of essays by scholars, journalists, and activists from across the United States, all exploring what 'work' may eventually look like given trends in the economy, globalization, technology, society, and public policy"--
What will work eventually look like? This is the question at the heart of this timely collection. The editors and contributors&;a mix of policy experts, academics, and advocates&;seek to reframe the typical projections of the &;future&; of work. They examine the impact of structural racism on work, the loss of family&;sustaining jobs, the new role of gig work, growing economic inequality, barriers to rewarding employment such as age, gender, disability, and immigration status, and the business policies driving these ongoing challenges.
Together the essays present varied and practical insights into both U.S. and global trends, discuss the role of labor activism in furthering economic justice, and examine progressive strategies to improve the experience of work, wages, and the lives of workers. The Many Futures of Work offers a range of viable policies and practices that can promote rewarding employment and steer our course away from low-wage, unstable jobs toward jobs that lead to equitable prosperity and economic inclusion.
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"The Many Futures of Work packs into one volume a breathtaking amount of information and data (with notably colorful tables and figures).... The book is a valuable source for academics and students who study work. It can also provide fresh ideas for consultants and labor organizers. As technology and capital continue to transform work, The Many Futures of Work provides an important reminder to stay abreast of their logics and the mechanisms used to sustain workers interests, whatever the future will be."-Contemporary Sociology
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| Introduction: Achieving the Promise of Work |
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PART I THE IMPACT OF BIAS AND STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY ON WORK |
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1 Preparing for the Future of Work in Regions and Cities |
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2 Gender and the U.S. Labor Market: Change and Continuity |
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3 The Futures of Work and People with Disabilities |
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4 Are Immigrants Underskilled, or Are Their Jobs Underskilled? |
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5 Structural Racism and Stratification: Understanding Racial Inequality in the American Workforce |
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PART II RISING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM |
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6 What's Behind the Increase in Wage Inequality? |
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7 The Investment Triad and Sustainable Prosperity |
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8 Intersections and Barriers: Economic Justice and the Futures of Work in Our Hemisphere |
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PART III THE PLATFORM ECONOMY AND GIG WORKERS: EXPECTATIONS, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES |
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9 The Original Gig Economy |
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10 Vorsprung durch Technik: The Futures of Work, Digital Technology, and the Platform Economy |
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11 Entrepreneurial Finance in the Platform Economy Era: What Consequences for Labor? Martin Kenney and John Zysman |
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PART IV THE ROLE OF LABOR ACTIVISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY |
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12 One Fair Wage: The Only Just Way Forward |
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13 Hatching Labor's Phoenix: Sparking Mass Union Organizing in the United States |
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14 New Frontiers of Worker Power: Challenges and Opportunities in the Modern Economy |
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PART V PATHS TO THE FUTURE |
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15 Bending the Futures and Meanings of Work, Careers, and Life-Course Pathways |
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16 Commonwealth Companies: A Path to Restore Workers1 Rights and Economic Democracy |
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17 Property Not Pay: Restoring the Middle through Ownership |
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18 An Authentic "Right to Work" |
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| Conclusion: Moving from "The Many Futures of Work" to "Achieving the Promise of Work" |
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| Editors and Contributors |
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Peter A. Creticos is President and Executive Director of the Institute for Work and the Economy. In Fall 2020, Peter was appointed to the Equity Task Force of the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board (IWIB). He is also a member of the Economic Development advisory committee for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Peter has managed several projects includes studies on apprenticeship, economic development in the Midwest, the integration of immigrants in the workforce, and professional licensing of skilled immigrants. He coauthored a chapter in Latinos in Chicago: Reflections of an American Landscape. He also coauthored Manufacturing in the United States, Mexico, and Central America, Implications for Competitiveness and Migration and was a contributor to OECD Territorial Reviews: Puebla/Tlaxcala, Mexico, 2013.
Larry Bennett is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at DePaul University, and from 2017 to 2018 served as interim Executive Director of North Branch Works, a nonprofit neighborhood economic development organization in Chicago. He is the coeditor of Neoliberal Chicago, author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism, and the coeditor of Temple University Presss Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy book series.
Laura Owen is Associate Professor of Economics at DePaul University. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Journal of Economic History, Review of Social Sciences, and Labor History.
Costas Spirou is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Georgia College & State University, where he is also Professor of Sociology and Public Administration. Most recently, he is the author of Anchoring Innovation Districts: The Entrepreneurial University and Urban Change and coauthor of Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago. He is editor of the Johns Hopkins University Press Higher Education and the City book series.
Maxine Morphis-Riesbeck is an independent scholar. She served previously as visiting faculty for the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) program at Lewis University and the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership at North Central College. Currently, she is a consultant specializing in process analysis, communications, and training. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy.
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