"In a brilliant but sobering work of journalism, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a hard look at the forces that are reshaping the nature of work in America, overturning the often espoused mythology that retraining workers in software, engineering, and the sciences is the key to job sec…
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Foreword /Peter Georgescu --Introduction: Achieving the Promise of Work /Peter A. Creticos --The Impact of Bias and Structural Inequality on Work.1. Preparing for the Future of Work in Regions and Cities /Jonathan Barr and Karen E. Maguire --Gender and the U.S. Labor Market: Cha…
Soul of a City -- Rainier Beach to Redmond -- Playing the Game Around Us -- Don't Let the Robots Scare You -- Money Talks -- Brand or Bust -- Owning the Moment -- Learning the Language of Innovation -- Narrowing the Digital Divide -- The Jobs of the Future. "Upper Hand is desig…
"Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s. A process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of working class' precariousness, on a global scale. Its main hypothesis is that in…
"Say the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people--whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumpt…