Product Description: About 34 million Americans—nearly 24 percent of the labor force—earn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time. Most of these workers lack a college degree, limiting their ability to get ahead in today’s labor market...read more

Product Description: Changes in what researchers have called the "fundamental arithmetic of the family" - the ratio of jobs, including management of the home, to adults in the household - are creating stresses that affect both family life and workers' performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another series of management fads or ruses designed to get more out of workers without giving them anything in return...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Thirty years ago, the bestselling “letter to the government” Work in America published to national acclaim, including front-page coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. It sounded an alarm about worker dissatisfaction and the effects on the nation as a whole...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together an international group of contributors to explore the impacts of structural economic change and technological progress on labor markets. The contributors goal is to present an in-depth comparative study of the ways in which different national economies have adjusted to structural changes like the shift to service-based economies and technological changes brought about by the increasing use of the computer in offices and on the production line...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Identifies changing patterns of labor force participation by married women and analyzes the consequences to women of the work versus family decision. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)