{"product_id":"degraded-work-9780816681402","title":"Degraded Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marc Doussard posits a new interpretation of the 2001 to 2006 profit-wage disjuncture that is innovative and fresh. This is the stuff of truly innovative urban-economic analysis.\"—David Wilson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Distinctive and pioneering, \u003ci\u003eDegraded Work\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the areas of excess profit within two sectors that are often viewed as very close to perfectly competitive, smaller scale neighborhood retail and residential construction. These detailed analyses help make a broader case that low wages and precarious work are not inevitable. Doussard integrates these elements into an instructive polemic against some popular but oversimplified analyses of urban and labor market restructuring, introducing the concept of degraded work to capture the changes he observes.\"—Chris Tilly, UCLA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important and much-needed intervention in the literature on inequality and low-wage work.\"—\u003ci\u003eLabour\/Le Travail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDegraded Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable contribution to the study of low-wage work, inequality, labor markets, and organizing. Doussard makes a convincing case that policy makers, practitioners, and scholars need to engage in serious local, sectoral research in order to truly understand the labor market.\"—\u003ci\u003eSocial Service Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well-written and clearly argued.\"—\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well-researched and illuminating.\"—\u003ci\u003eLabor Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkably detailed book, \u003ci\u003eDegraded Work\u003c\/i\u003e challenges one of the dominant theories for urban inequality in North America and challenges readers to do something about inequality in their own city. Perhaps Doussard’s greatest accomplishment is to challenge what his readers believe and what they are doing with their lives or careers, without being confrontational. His analysis shows considerable depth and detail, but he presents it with humor, and without pretense, so it is accessible to experts and laypeople alike.\"—\u003ci\u003eEconomic Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marc Doussard’s Degraded Work is a timely foray into the complex and controversial reality of current workplace circumstances and conditions in urban America.\"—\u003ci\u003eAAG Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Boom in Poorly Paid and Precarious Jobs\u003cb\u003e1. New Inequalities: The Deterioration of Local-Serving Industries\u003cb\u003e2. Beyond Low Wages: The Problem of Degraded Work\u003cb\u003e3. The City That Sweats Work: Growth and Inequality in Post-Fordist Chicago\u003cb\u003e4. Oases in the Midst of Deserts: How Food Retailers Thrive in Disinvested Neighborhoods\u003cb\u003e5. “They’re Happy to Have a Job”: Mid-Size Supermarkets and Degraded Work\u003cb\u003e6. Building Degradation: Dangerous Work and Falling Pay during a Construction Boom\u003cb\u003e7. A Perfectly Flexible Workforce: Day Labor in a Precarious Industry\u003cb\u003e8. New Answers to New Problems: The Creative Work of Reversing Degradation \u003cb\u003eConclusion: Building a Fair Labor Market in Post-Manufacturing Economies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405971300695,"sku":"9780816681402","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816681402.jpg?v=1730494093","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/degraded-work-9780816681402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}