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- Can-Fit-Pro
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Corrosion of Character
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Richard Sennett explores the myth of efficiency in the new business order. This is a book about people who went through being downsized in their work. This is the New Capitalism- All Human Character has been abondoned and in its place an owner and demographer who downsize the workers of companies.
- Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
- Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
- How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers Lives Hell
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Whatever it's called – just-in-time scheduling, on-call staffing, on-demand work, independent contracting, or the "share economy" -- the result is the same: No predictability, no economic security.
- Lebert Fitness
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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