Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
ISBN: 9781501717932
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Labor market -- United States; Working class -- United States;

The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and...


Vicki Smith is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in an American Bank .

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