Reducing Inequality and Insecurity Rethinking Labor and Employment Policy for the 21st Century

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 development...

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Published inWork and Occupations Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 311 - 320
Main Author Appelbaum, Eileen
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2012
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Denmark
Employment policies
Employment policy
Full employment
Income inequality
Inequality
Institutional change
Job sharing
Labor market
Labour policy
Netherlands
Organizational change
Social contract
Studies
U.S.A
Welfare economics
Denmark
United States > US
Netherlands
full employment
flexicurity
precarious jobs
work sharing
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0730-8884
1552-8464
DOI:10.1177/0730888412444883