Janoski / Luke / Oliver The Causes of Structural Unemployment

Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8413-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Work & Society

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries:structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concernover declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked upafter the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possiblethat "jobless recoveries" could become a permanentfeature of Western economies.
This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures ofadvanced industrial countries, providing readers with thesociological imagination to appreciate the bigger picture of whereworkers fit in the new international division of labor. The authorspiece together a puzzle that reveals deep structural forcesunderlying unemployment: skills mismatches caused by a shift frommanufacturing to service jobs; increased offshoring in search oflower wages; the rise of advanced communication and automatedtechnologies; and the growing financialization of the globaleconomy that aggravates all of these factors. Weaving togethervaried literatures and data, the authors also consider what actionsand policy initiatives societies might take to alleviate thesethreats.
Addressing a problem that should be front and center for politicaleconomists and policymakers, this book will be illuminating readingfor students of the sociology of work, labor studies, inequality,and economic sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janoski, Thomas

Luke, David

Oliver, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables, Figures, and Boxes viii
Abbreviations x
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 26
3 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 53
4 Technological Change and Job Loss 82
5 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 113
6 Fixing Structural Unemployment 142
7 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173
Notes 179
References 190
Subject Index 214
Name Index 223

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky
Christopher Oliver is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kentucky
David Luke is Research Assistant at the University of Kentucky