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Where Bad Jobs Are Better

Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies

By: Francoise Carre,Chris Tilly

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Where Bad Jobs Are Better

Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies

By: Francoise Carre,Chris Tilly

Retail is now the largest employer in the United States. For the most part, retail jobs are “bad jobs” characterized by low wages, unpredictable work schedules, and few opportunities for advancement. However, labor experts Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly show that these conditions are not inevitable. In Where Bad Jobs Are Better, they investigate retail work across different industries and seven countries to demonstrate that better retail jobs are not just possible, but already exist. By carefully analyzing the factors that lead to more desirable retail jobs, Where Bad Jobs Are Better charts a path to improving job quality for all low-wage jobs. In surveying retail work across the United States, Carré and Tilly find that the majority of retail workers receive low pay and nearly half work part-time, which contributes to high turnover and low productivity. Jobs staffed predominantly by women, such as grocery store cashiers, pay even less than retail jobs in male-dominated fields, such as consumer electronics. Yet, when comparing these jobs to similar positions in Western Europe, Carré and Tilly find surprising differences. In France, though supermarket cashiers perform essentially the same work as cashiers in the United States, they receive higher pay, are mostly full-time, and experience lower turnover and higher productivity. And unlike the United States, where many retail employees are subject to unpredictable schedules, in Germany, retailers are required by law to provide their employees notice of work schedules six months in advance. The authors show that disparities in job quality are largely the result of differing social norms and national institutions. For instance, weak labor regulations and the decline of unions in the United States have enabled retailers to cut labor costs aggressively in ways that depress wages and discourage full-time work. On the other hand, higher minimum wages, greater government regulation of work schedules, and stronger collective bargaining through unions and works councils have improved the quality of retail jobs in Europe. As retail and service work continue to expand, American employers and policymakers will have to decide the extent to which these jobs will be good or bad. Where Bad Jobs Are Better shows how stronger rules and regulations can improve the lives of retail workers and boost the quality of low-wage jobs across the board.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448707

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9781610448703

Worker Cooperatives and Revolution

History and Possibilities in the United States

By: Chris Wright

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Worker Cooperatives and Revolution

History and Possibilities in the United States

By: Chris Wright

Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the global popular protests of 2011, more people have begun to wonder and speculate: what’s next for civilization? The economic, social, and political status quo seems unsustainable, but what can emerge to take its place? In this book, a historian examines the past and present to argue that the seeds of a more humane society are already being planted, on local and international scales. Whether they will bear fruit depends, ultimately, on grassroots initiative. Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first systematic discussion of the solidarity economy in the light of Marxist theory; it also introduces a major revision of Marxism that both updates it for the twenty-first century and illuminates our historical moment. It includes an analysis of the history of cooperatives in the U.S., showing where they went wrong and how we can correct their past mistakes. It has a case-study of the successful new worker-owned business New Era Windows in Chicago, which has been celebrated internationally for its defiance of conventional paradigms. And it shows a way out of the age-old conflict between Marxism and anarchism, arguing that both are more relevant now than they have ever been. Which is to say: a gradualist “revolution” is, for the first time, within the realm of possibility.

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Booklocker

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1632634325

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9781632634320

Enterprise Return on a Training Investment

By: Chris Doucouliagos,Pasquale M. Sgro

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Enterprise Return on a Training Investment

By: Chris Doucouliagos,Pasquale M. Sgro

The return on investment (ROI) obtained by enterprises that invest in training was examined through case studies of seven Australian work organizations. The case study organizations included a government-owned transportation company, a privately owned company, a major nongovernmental charitable organization, a publicly listed corporation, and two subsidiaries of large multinational corporations. The two main forms of data considered were time series and matched pairs before and after training. Subjective and objective data were also used in several case studies to illustrate the diversity of data sources available to organizations and the use to which such data can be put. The following were among the major findings: (1) the financial and other returns from a well-designed training program can be substantial in all organizations, regardless of the organizations' sector, size, and structure and regardless of the occupational groups and employment levels involved; (2) in the seven case study organizations, ROI from training ranged from 30% to 7,000%; (3) training programs can be evaluated effectively by using a simple four-step methodological framework consisting of collecting data, pretesting and posttesting, multivariate analysis, and calculation of ROI. (Forty-one tables/figures and 24 references are included along with biographical details about contact persons at the case study sites.) (MN)

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