Work and Wage Experience Studies
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : Dale Belman
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0880994568
Belman and Wolfson perform a meta-analysis on scores of published studies on the effects of the minimum wage to determine its impacts on employment, wages, poverty, and more.
Author : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309064139
In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs. Protecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers. This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices. Protecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429926643
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Author : United States. Office of Management and Budget. Statistical Policy Division
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Page : 884 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
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Category : United States
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Author : David R. Roediger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839768304
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
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Page : 1852 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Government publications
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309444454
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impacts are most likely to be found for prior immigrants or native-born high school dropouts. First-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born, but the second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S. This report concludes that immigration has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth in the U.S. More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many U.S. residents view immigration as a major policy issue facing the nation. Not only does immigration affect the environment in which everyone lives, learns, and works, but it also interacts with nearly every policy area of concern, from jobs and the economy, education, and health care, to federal, state, and local government budgets. The changing patterns of immigration and the evolving consequences for American society, institutions, and the economy continue to fuel public policy debate that plays out at the national, state, and local levels. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration assesses the impact of dynamic immigration processes on economic and fiscal outcomes for the United States, a major destination of world population movements. This report will be a fundamental resource for policy makers and law makers at the federal, state, and local levels but extends to the general public, nongovernmental organizations, the business community, educational institutions, and the research community.
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Labor
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