Creating Good Jobs

An Industry-Based Strategy

Paul Osterman, Barbara Dyer (MIT)

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MIT Press
28 January 2020

Management & management techniques; Industrial arbitration & negotiation

Series: The MIT Press

Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking.

Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home construction live from paycheck to paycheck, juggling multiple jobs with variable schedules, few benefits, and limited prospects for advancement. These bad outcomes are produced by a range of industry-specific factors, including intense competition, outsourcing and subcontracting, failure to enforce employment standards, overt discrimination, outmoded production and management systems, and inadequate worker voice. In this volume, experts look for ways to improve job quality in the low-wage sector. They offer in-depth examinations of specific industries-long-term healthcare, hospitals and outpatient care, retail, residential construction, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking-that together account for more than half of all low-wage jobs.

The book's sector view allows the contributors to address industry-specific variations that shape operational choices about work. Drawing on deep industry knowledge, they consider important distinctions within and between these industries; the financial, institutional, and structural incentives that shape the choices employers make; and what it would take to make more jobs better jobs.

Contributors Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, Dale Belman, Julie Brockman, Fran oise Carre, Susan Helper, Matt Hinkel, Tashlin Lakhani, JaeEun Lee, Raphael Martins, Russell Ormiston, Paul Osterman, Can Ouyang, Chris Tilly, Steve Viscelli

Foreword by: Barbara Dyer (MIT)
Edited by: Paul Osterman
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 27mm
ISBN: 9780262043632
ISBN 10: 0262043637
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 28 January 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Osterman is Professor of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the coeditor of Working in America- A Blueprint for the New Labor Market.