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the gloves off economy workplace standards at the bottom of americas labor market
across the united states increasing numbers of employers are breaking bending or evading long established laws and standards designed to protect workers from the minimum wage to job safety standards to the right to organize . this gloves off economy no longer confined to a marginal set of sweatshops and fly by night small businesses is sending shock waves into every corner of the low wage labor market . in the process employers who play by the rules are under growing pressure to follow suit intensifying the search for low cost business strategies across a wide range of industries and ratcheting up into ever higher reaches of the labor market . although other books have touched on pieces of this problem the gloves off economy is the first to provide a comprehensive integrated analysis and quite a disturbing one.this book examines a range of gloves off practices the workers who are affected by them and strategies for enforcing workplace standards . the editors four respected labor scholars have brought together economists sociologists labor attorneys union strategists and other experts to offer varying perspectives on both the problem and the creative solutions currently being explored in a wide range of communities and industries . annette bernhardt heather boushey laura dresser and chris tilly and the volumes other authors combine rigorous analysis with a stirring call to renew worker protections in the twenty first century .
paperback ilr press 2008 isbn13 9780913447970 isbn10 0913447978
abridged n isbn 13 9780913447970 number in series 1 number of pages 319 publisher cornell univ pr release date 62135769600000 series title labor and employment relations association