Low-Wage Workers and Organizing

标题Low-Wage Workers and Organizing
出版物类型期刊文章
出版物年份2015
作者Visser, Anne, and Cordero-Guzmán, Héctor R.
期刊WorkingUSA
Volume18
Issue1
Pagination1 - 6
Date Published2015///
关键词ethnicity, low-wage work, low-wage workers, organizing, race, union organizing
Abstract

[Excerpt] Over the last forty years, changes in the structure and function of the labor market and the demographic composition of the labor force have reshaped patterns of economic opportunity in the United States. Changes in the structure of the economy and increasing globalization have facilitated the integration of capital, labor, production, and consumption markets, and systems of production and labor procurement are now characterized by global chains, corporate net-works, and transnational labor recruitment regimes. As global firms have increased in power, broader macro processes of outsourcing and subcontracting have induced trends in employment flexibility, resulting in the increased demand for temporary and contingent workers and a reliance on labor market intermediaries to supply and secure labor. These trends have occurred in connection to declining rates of union participation and density, the practical breakdown of labor protections, and the erosion of employment standards that are associated with increased labor market segmentation and growing economic inequality

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