Menu
The changing nature of work
Long-term trends in the workplace
- Shift from full-time to temporary work
- Globalization, shifts in economic sectors (less higher-paying manufacturing, more lower-paying service)
- Unemployment more restricted (remember post 1960s business backlash?)
- Union organizing in the private sector has declined dramatically
- Increasing income and wealth inequality (what’s driving it?)
- Increasing homelessness and housing insecurity
- Increasing privatization of public assets, social welfare
- Does it work?
- For whom?
- Increasing social inequality
- Increasing McDonaldization of work force, low-wage ‘traps‘
- Automation
