{"product_id":"9780674975446-the-fissured-workplace","title":"The Fissured Workplace","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It\u003cbr\u003eFissuring—splitting off functions that were once managed internally—has been a successful business strategy. Large companies maintain the quality of their brand without the cost of an expensive workforce. But this approach has led to stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living for workers. David Weil proposes solutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil’s groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions, and ever-widening income inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Authoritative…[\u003ci\u003eThe Fissured Workplace\u003c\/i\u003e] shed[s] important new light on the resurgence of the power of finance and its connection to the debasement of work and income distribution.”\u003cbr\u003e—Robert Kuttner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The kinds of workplace fissuring discussed here—subcontracting, franchising, and global supply chains—have been the subjects of a number of studies detailing the employment effects that Weil describes. \u003ci\u003eThe Fissured Workplace\u003c\/i\u003e is unusual in bringing this research together into an integrated, detailed, and decidedly policy-oriented analysis…It makes a convincing case that the better regulation of fissured workplaces is a first step towards reversing the erosion of pay and conditions at the bottom of the labor market.”\u003cbr\u003e—Virginia Doellgast, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449762230646,"sku":"9780674975446","price":24.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28654385.jpg?v=1760446660","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674975446-the-fissured-workplace","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}