Illusions of Prosperity: America's Working Families in an Age of Economic Insecurity.

Autor/in	Blau, Joel
Titel	Illusions of Prosperity: America's Working Families in an Age of Economic Insecurity.
Quelle	(1999), (272 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-19-508993-6
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Economic Climate; Economic Opportunities; Education Work Relationship; Educational Attitudes; Educational Finance; Employment Level; Employment Patterns; Employment Practices; Family Financial Resources; Family Income; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Free Enterprise System; Government Role; International Trade; Job Training; Labor Market; Labor Turnover; Poverty; Productivity; Public Policy; Reduction in Force; Salary Wage Differentials; Trend Analysis; Unemployment; Unions; Vocational Education; Welfare Recipients; Working Class; Asia; China; Europe; Mexico; United Kingdom (Great Britain); United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Wirtschaftslage; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungsfonds; Beschäftigungsgrad; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Berufspraxis; Familieneinkommen; Finanzielle Förderung; Ausland; Freie Wirtschaft; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Armut; Produktivität; Öffentliche Ordnung; Trendanalyse; Arbeitslosigkeit; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Arbeiterklasse; Asien; Europa; Mexiko; USA
Abstract	This book examines the political and economic consequences of the United States' growing reliance on the market and the effects that this growing reliance is having on U.S. workers and their families. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 10 chapters: (1) consequences of the turn to the market (disinvestment, imbalance between the public and private sectors, inequality of income and wealth, political instability); (2) markets, nations, and inequality (decline of the nation-state, free trade, business moves, free trade and inequality); (3) disposable workers (unions, productivity, robots, automation, transformation of work, downsizing, part-time and temporary jobs); (4) the low-wage, low-skill strategy (wage differentials, minimum wage, fragmentation of the middle class); (5) education, choice, profit, and democracy (ambiguous attitudes toward education, educational financing, market answers regarding educational financing, school reform, accountability, national standards); (6) jobs and job training (inadequacy of the federal response, unemployment insurance, skills and attitudes); (7) the market as cure and/or cause of poverty and welfare; (8) democracy in the workplace (market accountability); (9) government's role in relation to the workplace (enfeebling government, deregulation, privatization); and (10) the next deal (the public's capital, universalism, entitlement spending, international linkages, campaign reform). Each chapter contains references. (MN)
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