The Changing U.S. labor market /

This collection of essays analyzes important public policy issues connected with US labor markets. Faced with global competition and technological innovation, American employers have frequently restructured their organizations to reduce labor costs. Among the consequences of corporate downsizing are growing income inequality, declining real wages, and pervasive economic insecurity. The seven chapters in this volume address such themes as immigration and employment opportunity, racial diversity in labor markets, structural shifts in the economy, geographic and demographic trends, work and welfare, education and training, and the aging of the workforce. Each essay offers a basic overview of the topic and an identification of specific problems within the field. Ginzberg provides introductory and concluding essays that survey changes in the world of work and discuss possible futures for employment policy. Altogether, the work is a timely introduction to basic issues about work and employment in the US. Suitable for general readers as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the disciplines of economics, sociology, and labor relations. R. L. Hogler; Colorado State University