1: Mapping The Contours Of Work:
Scenes from the new economy
Job markets and job demands
Demography and the new labor force
2: New Products, New Ways Of Working, And The New Economy:
3: Economic Inequality, Social Mobility, And The New Economy:
Are economic divides narrowing or widening in the United States?
Are career pathways opening or closing?:
Missing rungs in the ladder
Entry points: securing the good job in young adulthood
Is the global economy becoming more flat or bumpy?
Chapter 4: Whose Jobs Are Secure?:
Risk and work: historical and comparative views
How insecure are workers in the new economy?
Costs of job loss and insecurity
Responding to insecurity: old and new careers
Chapter 5: Fair Day's Work?: The Intensity And Scheduling Of Jobs In The New Economy:
Time, intensity, and work
How long are we working? Comparative frameworks
Working long, working hard
Why are Americans working so much?
Nonstandard schedules: jobs in a 24/7 economy
How Americans deal with overwork
Chapter 6: Gender Chasms In The New Economy:
When did home work become nonwork?
Women's participation in the paid labor force in America
Gender inequalities in compensation
Socialization, career selection, and career paths
Interpersonal discrimination in the workplace
Structural dimensions of gender discrimination:
Devaluation of women's work
How job designs discriminate
Strategies to bridge the care gaps: international comparisons
Chapter 7: Race, Ethnicity, And Work: Legacies Of The Past, Problems In The Present:
Histories of race, ethnicity, and work:
African American exceptionality
Magnitude of racial inequality in the new economy
Intergenerational transmission of resources:
Race, ethnicity, and economic capital
Race, ethnicity, and human capital
Race, ethnicity, and social capital
Race, ethnicity, and cultural capital
Geographic distribution of race and work opportunity
Racial prejudice and discrimination
Race, ethnicity, and work: social policy:
Chapter 8: Reshaping The Contours Of The New Economy:
Role of international organizations
Appendix: Legislative and regulatory timeline of worker rights and protections in the United States
Mapping the contours of work
Scenes from the new economy
Job markets and job demands
Demography and the new labor force
How new is the new economy?
A post-industrial society?
The end of mass production?
The end of organized labor?
The old in the new: a summary
Class chasms in the new economy
Class and opportunity in the United States
Class and opportunity in the developing world
Are international economic divides widening or narrowing?
Gender chasms in the new economy
When did home work become nonwork?
Women's participation in the paid labor force in America
Gender inequalities in compensation
Socialization, career selection, and career paths
Interpersonal discrimination in the workplace
Structural dimensions of gender discrimination
The devaluation of women's work
How job designs discriminate
Strategies to bridge the care gaps: international comparisons
Race, ethnicity, and work: legacies of the past, problems in the present
Histories of race, ethnicity, and work
African American exceptionality
The magnitude of racial inequality in the new economy
Intergenerational transmission of resources
Race, ethnicity, and economic capital
Race, ethnicity, and human capital
Race, ethnicity, and social capital
Race, ethnicity, and cultural capital
Geographic distribution of race and work opportunity
Prejudice and discrimination
Race, ethnicity, and work: social policy
Risk and work: historical and comparative views
How insecure are workers in the new economy?
The costs of job loss and insecurity
Responding to insecurity: old and new careers
A fair day's work? the intensity and scheduling of jobs in the new economy
Time, intensity, and work
How long are we working? comparative frameworks
Working long, working hard
Why are Americans working so much?
Nonstandard schedules: jobs in a 24/7 economy
How Americans deal with overwork
Reshaping the contours of the new economy
The role of activist groups
The role of organized labor
The role of international organizations
Appendix: Legislative and regulatory timeline of worker rights and protections in the United States
