Nice Work If You Can Get It : : Life and Labor in Precarious Times /

Nice Work If You Can Get It : : Life and Labor in Precarious Times / / Andrew Ross.

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2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIs job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that-a dream?In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Ross, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis ; 8
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I CREATIVE WORKERS AND RENT-SEEKING
  • 1 The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policymaking in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States
  • 2 China’s Next Cultural Revolution?
  • 3 The Olympic Goose That Lays the Golden Egg
  • II SUSTAINABILITY AND THE GROUND STAFF
  • 4 Teamsters, Turtles, and Tainted Toys
  • 5 Learning from San Ysidro
  • III INSTRUMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE CAPITALISM
  • 6 The Copyfight over Intellectual Property
  • 7 The Rise of the Global University
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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