Stephen A Sweet, Peter F Meiksins

Broschiertes Buch

Changing Contours of Work

Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy

Beschreibung

A rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. The authors frame the development of jobs in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work and the profound effects these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. 

Autor

Stephen Sweet is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Ithaca College and formerly the associate director of the Cornell Careers Institute, a Sloan Center for the Study of Working Families. He has written a number of articles on the challenges confronting working families, focusing on the issues of concern to dual career couples across the life course. His studies have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New Directions in Life Course Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior , Journal of Marriage and the Family, Innovative Higher Education, The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Journal of College Student Development, and Community, Work, and Family. Stephen's other book with SAGE is The Work-Family Interface. He has also published The Handbook of Work and Family with co-authors Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Ellen Ernst Kossek;  Managing Careers in the New Risk Economy, with co-investigator Phyllis Moen; College and Society: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination, and Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics. Stephen has been the recipient of a Sloan Officers Grant to study the effects of corporate downsizing on dual earner couples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781544305691
• ISBN-10: 1544305699
• Artikelnr.: 59913191