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Turbulence in the American workplace

Turbulence in the American workplace

Doeringer, Peter B

This book deals with critical issues resulting from the impact of corporate restructuring on workers. U.S. industry has undergone a shakeout resulting from increasing competitive pressures and the globalization of production. As a result, some two million workers have been laid-off from their employers. Individual chapters have been drafted by an interdisciplinary group of academics who explore seven key areas: demographic changes of younger and older workers, workforcedisplacement from lay-offs, human resources planning for downsizing and mergers, technological change, changes in the roles of unions, changes in managerial and professional work, and `contingent' and flexible employment. The drafts of the chapters have been extensively edited and, in some cases, rewrittenso that the book will read more like a series of chapters than a group of papers.The work was commissioned by the National Planning Association who will be a party to the contract

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Published New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
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    Statement of responsibility: Peter B. Doeringer ... [et al.]
    ISBN: 0195064615, 9780195064612
    Note: Bibliography: p219-243.-Includes index.
    Physical Description: xiv,256p. : ill. ; 25cm.
    Subject: Manpower planning United States.; Labor market United States.; Corporate reorganizations United States.; United States; Labor supply Effect of technological innovations on United States.; Plant shutdowns United States.; Labour market Adaptation

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    This book deals with critical issues resulting from the impact of corporate restructuring on workers. U.S. industry has undergone a shakeout resulting from increasing competitive pressures and the globalization of production. As a result, some two million workers have been laid-off from their employers. Individual chapters have been drafted by an interdisciplinary group of academics who explore seven key areas: demographic changes of younger and older workers, workforce

    displacement from lay-offs, human resources planning for downsizing and mergers, technological change, changes in the roles of unions, changes in managerial and professional work, and `contingent' and flexible employment. The drafts of the chapters have been extensively edited and, in some cases, rewritten

    so that the book will read more like a series of chapters than a group of papers.

    The work was commissioned by the National Planning Association who will be a party to the contract.