The Causes of Structural Unemployment : Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve
Thomas. Janoski
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (240 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; Economic, Political Economy and Institutional Explanations; Definitions, Levels, and Types of Unemployment; Evidence for Structural Unemployment; Unemployment, Inequality, and Labor Market Segmentation; Four Causes of Structural Unemployment; Policies to Reduce Structural Unemployment; What Comes Next?; 2: Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches; The Shift from Manufacturing to Services; Overestimates of the Shift in Services. - Artificial intelligence in robotics and numerical controlThe impact of computers on unemployment; The Bravermanic leap to the professions; Assessing the Impact of Technology; Conclusion; 5: Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment; The Growth of Financialization; Global financial markets; Profits and investments flowing to financial services; Exceptionally high wages and bonuses; Increases in speculation; Government deregulation; Accepting Global Trade and Offshoring; Lower prices as irresistible bait; Biased comparative advantage. - Channeling Profits Away from LaborRecent Shifts and Mismatches; Education and Skill Mismatches; Labor Market Intermediaries and Job Placement; Firms and Skill Mismatches; The Magnitude of Skill Mismatches; Conclusion; 3: Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring; The Rise of Lean Production; Changes in Organizational form due to Lean Production and Offshoring; Lean production one; Lean production two; Lean production three; Offshoring; How did we get from Toyotism to unemployment?; Examples of Various Lean Firms. - Declining labor standardsConcentration of profits for private gain; Not your average third world country; Financialization Becoming Part of the Structural Process; Shareholder value strategy; Exploding consumer debt to correct for underconsumption; Wall Street financialization; Conclusion; 6: Fixing Structural Unemployment; Situating Workers in Labor Markets Undergoing Volatile Structural Changes; Government Policy Responses; Active Labor Market Policies; Training through Vocational Education; Job Creation and Entrepreneurship Programs; Innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. - Job Placement Programs. - Toyota as the Premier Lean Production Corporation Expanding JobsNike as a Donut Corporation from the Beginning; Apple as a Donut Corporation; GE as the Proselytizer; Walmart as an Offshoring Merchandiser; Consequences for Lean Production and Donut Corporations; Conclusion; 4: Technological Change and Job Loss; Theories of Technology and Structural Unemployment; Economic theories; Business or firm theories; Marxist theories; Historical-institutionalist theories in sociology; Technologies that Increase Structural Unemployment; Ocean shipping from stevedores to containerization. - There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that "jobless recoveries" could become a permanent feature of Western economies. This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of advanced industrial countries, providing readers with the sociological imagination to appreciate the bigger picture of where workers fit in the new international division of labor. The authors p
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| ISBN | 9780745670270. - 9780745670287
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