The Fissured Workplace

Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

David Weil

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$23.50 • £18.95 • €21.00

ISBN 9780674975446

Publication Date: 05/08/2017

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424 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

10 line illustrations, 16 tables

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I. Vignettes from the Modern Workplace
- 1. The Fissured Workplace and Its Consequences
- 2. Employment in a Pre-fissured World
- 3. Why Fissure?
- 4. Wage Determination in a Fissured Workplace
II. The Forms and Consequences of the Fissured Workplace
- 5. The Subcontracted Workplace
- 6. Fissuring and Franchising
- 7. Supply Chains and the Fissured Workplace
III. Mending the Fissured Workplace
- 8. Rethinking Responsibility
- 9. Rethinking Enforcement
- 10. Fixing Broken Windows
- 11. The Fissured Economy
- 12. A Path Forward
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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