Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Peter Georgescu
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Achieving the Promise of Work | Peter A. Creticos
Part I. The Impact of Bias and Structural Inequality on Work
1. Preparing for the Future of Work in Regions and Cities | Jonathan Barr and Karen E. Maguire
2. Gender and the U.S. Labor Market: Change and Continuity | Ruth Milkman
3. The Futures of Work and People with Disabilities | Susanne M. Bruyère
4. Are Immigrants Underskilled, or Are Their Jobs Underskilled? | Rob Paral
5. Structural Racism and Stratification: Understanding Racial Inequality in the American Workforce | Patrick L. Mason
Part II. Rising Economic Inequality: The Elephant in the Room
6. What’s Behind the Increase in Wage Inequality? | Eileen Appelbaum
7. The Investment Triad and Sustainable Prosperity | William Lazonick
8. Intersections and Barriers: Economic Justice and the Futures of Work in Our Hemisphere | Oscar A. Chacón and Amy Shannon
Part III. The Platform ECONOMY and Gig Workers: Expectations, Challenges, and Opportunities
9. The Original Gig Economy | James Bau Graves
10. Vorsprung durch Technik: The Futures of Work, Digital Technology, and the Platform Economy | Chris Warhurst, Chris Mathieu, and Sally Wright
11. Entrepreneurial Finance in the Platform Economy Era: What Consequences for Labor? | Martin Kenney and John Zysman
Part IV. The Role of Labor Activism in the Twenty-First Century
12. One Fair Wage: The Only Just Way Forward | Saru Jayaraman and Devan Shea
13. Hatching Labor’s Phoenix: Sparking Mass Union Organizing in the United States | Stephen Herzenberg
14. New Frontiers of Worker Power: Challenges and Opportunities in the Modern Economy | Michelle Miller and Eric Harris Bernstein
Part V. Paths to the Future
15. Bending the Futures and Meanings of Work, Careers, and Life-Course Pathways | Phyllis Moen
16. Commonwealth Companies: A Path to Restore Workers’ Rights and Economic Democracy | Thomas Croft and Annie Malhotra
17. Property Not Pay: Restoring the Middle through Ownership | Christopher Mackin
18. An Authentic “Right to Work” | William A. Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton
Conclusion: Moving from “The Many Futures of Work” to “Achieving the Promise of Work” | Peter A. Creticos
Editors and Contributors
Index