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We live in an age of economic paradox. The dynamism of America's economy is astounding--the country's industries are the most productive in the world and spin off new products and ideas at a bewildering pace. Yet Americans feel deeply uneasy about their economic future. The reason, Paul Osterman explains, is that our recent prosperity is built on the ruins of the once reassuring postwar labor market. Workers can no longer expect stable, full-time jobs and steadily rising incomes. Instead, they face stagnant wages, layoffs, rising inequality, and the increased likelihood of merely temporary work. In __Securing Prosperity__, Osterman explains in clear, accessible terms why these changes have occurred and lays out an innovative plan for new economic institutions that promises a more secure future. Osterman begins by sketching the rise and fall of the postwar labor market, showing that firms have been the driving force behind recent change. He draws on original surveys of nearly 1,000 corporations to demonstrate that firms have reorganized and downsized not just for the obvious reasons--technological advances and shifts in capital markets--but also to take advantage of new, team-orient
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- Author
- Paul Osterman
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691086880
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Management, Sociology
Other editions & translations
- Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It (A Century Foundation Book) (2001)
- Securing prosperity : the American labor market : how it has changed and what to do about it (2001)
- Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It (Century Foundation Book) (2014)
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