Reducing Inequality and Insecurity

Rethinking Labor and Employment Policy for the 21st Century

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2362207
AutoresEileen Appelbaum (Center for Economic and Policy Research, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen39
Número4
Páginas311-320
Fecha de publicación2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork and Occupations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0730-8884 • E-ISSN: 1552-8464
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0730888412444883
OpenAlexW2153449621
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

In Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, Arne Kalleberg examines the institutional changes in the United States that led to a polarization of income and job quality, a rising share of poor quality jobs, and the increasing precariousness of work across the educational spectrum. He proposes reversing these developments through a new social contract that builds on the design principles that underlie flexicurity policies in the Netherlands and Denmark-flexicurity with an American face. This article discusses the roots and promise of flexicurity to address the problems Kalleberg has identified. It also examines the limits to flexicurity and proposes additional policies to fulfill this promise

Business · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Flexicurity · Inequality · Labour economics · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Social Policy and Reform Studies