Download or read book Where Did the Jobs Go and How Do We Get Them Back written by Scott Bittle and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your guided tour to America’s employment crisis, the title says it all. Where Did the Jobs Go—and How Do We Get Them Back? is a clear, nonpartisan, surprisingly entertaining look at our nation’s current joblessness mess and how we can get ourselves working again. Written by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, authors of the breakout bestseller Where Did the Money Go?, this essential primer addresses the most serious problem facing Americans today with intelligence, refreshing candor, and sparkling wit, enabling voters to separate the facts from the politicians’ hot air and political spin.
Download or read book Work Won t Love You Back written by Sarah Jaffe and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.
Download or read book The Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Download or read book Time To Go Back written by Jean Hill and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reality of working class contemporary life as it is truly lived and in its raw form, written in the voice of Jean – a woman, wife, daughter, mother, grandmother. There is laughter and sadness, life and death, good neighbours and bad neighbours, hopes and fears. Heartfelt and always kind, Jean triumphs. “If we can’t go out into our garden, then I’ll bring the garden inside.”
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Jobs Jobs Jobs the Trump Way written by Brian W Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Trump has a rich set of solutions for solving the Jobs! problems of today. Solving Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! The Trump Way is a natural for the world's foremost businessman and builder. More Americans are out of work today than any other time since the Great Depression. In fact, many label this period in our history as The Great Recession. The President and the Congress not only are doing nothing, but by spending, spending, and more spending, they are literally chasing more and more jobs away. If Congress would only go home for good, this thing might solve itself. Congress has only made it worse. And the taxes they are putting the economy in another tailspin. On March 21, 2010 while having promised to solve the Jobs problem, Congress passed the biggest government expansion of all time in 2700 pages of legislation. Nancy Pelosi climbed the fence, pole vaulted in, and finally parachuted in with a huge gavel and a huge mouthful of saliva. Her actions made sure that Americans were sickened by the affliction of this health bill. Like most other legislation of the 111th Congress, this too is a jobs killer. Pelosi and her lackeys with the help of Barack Obama and the support of Hillary Clinton in the Senate have done more harm than any five Congresses in the history of the United States. They want you to forget about Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! There are no jobs! The situation is even more bleak as neither the President nor Congress finds the issue worthy enough to discuss. Nobody is working to create jobs in America. Nothing worth having is easy. Would it not be nice to have a capitalist (not Socialist or Marxist) country in which legislators want the people to be employed rather than be dependent on the state? Would it not be nice to have a successful businessman who knows how to make a capitalist society hum be in charge of getting it done for Americans? Where is the help? This book first takes a wary look at the problem, and then an even more wary look at government's downright reluctance to solve the Jobs problem. Following this set of essays the book then turns its attention to some workable solutions to help get US out of the doldrums. It is all doable and it is all explained right here! I hope you enjoy reading this book and that you will remain vigilant and take the actions necessary to ensure that all the people, and not the government in group-think, determine the fate of US workers. Not one person who has lost a job believes that government should ignore their plight. Congress is making life so tough that many unemployed feel they may never get back to work. There is a reason for all this and you can learn it and learn what to do about it by beginning with page 1 of this book. It is time somebody wrote a book like this to help the American People rally around the notion that in a choice between bad government and good jobs, bad government does not stand a chance. Thank you Mr. Trump for all the good ideas!
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Download or read book Investigation of the Relationship Existing Between Certain Contractors and Their Employees in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 14 Miles written by DW Gibson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diego—and the impact on the lives of local residents. In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall—at least a portion of it. In San Diego, the Army Corps of engineers completed two years of construction on a 14-mile steel beamed barrier that extends eighteen-feet high and cost a staggering $147 million. As one border patrol agent told reporters visiting the site, “It was funded and approved and it was built under his administration. It is Trump’s wall.” 14 Miles is a definitive account of all the dramatic construction, showing readers what it feels like to stand on both sides of the border looking up at the imposing and controversial barrier. After the Department of Homeland Security announced an open call for wall prototypes in 2017, DW Gibson, an award-winning journalist and Southern California native, began visiting the construction site and watching as the prototype samples were erected. Gibson spent those two years closely observing the work and interviewing local residents to understand how it was impacting them. These include April McKee, a border patrol agent leading a recruiting program that trains teenagers to work as agents; Jeff Schwilk, a retired Marine who organizes pro-wall rallies as head of the group San Diegans for Secure Borders; Roque De La Fuente, an eccentric millionaire developer who uses the construction as a promotional opportunity; and Civile Ephedouard, a Haitian refugee who spent two years migrating through Central America to the United States and anxiously awaits the results of his asylum case. Fascinating, propulsive, and incredibly timely, 14 Miles is an important work that explains not only how the wall has reshaped our landscape and countless lives but also how its shadow looms over our very identity as a nation.
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