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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	HD6957.U6 N48 1995		AVAILABLE

Title	The new modern times : factors reshaping the world of work / edited by David B. Bills.
OCLC	29703773
ISBN	0791422275
	0791422283 (pbk.)
Publisher	Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995]
	�1995
Description	ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	Work -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Industrial sociology -- United States.
	Technological innovations -- United States.
	Labor supply -- United States.
	Social change -- United States.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Technology and work : a social and historical overview of U.S. industrialization / Stephen Meyer -- Work skill in historical perspective / Robert Asher -- Technological change, skill requirements, and education : the case for uncertainty / Kenneth I. Spenner -- Vocational education : meeting manpower needs and providing student opportunities / Chet Rzonca, Douglas Gustafson, and Sandra Boutelle -- Temporary work and labor market detachment : new mechanisms and new opportunities / Donald Mayall -- Skills shortage or management shortage? / Ruy A. Teixeira and Lawrence Mishel -- A sociological commentary on Workforce 2000 / Nancy DiTomaso and Judith J. Friedman -- Potential effects of increasing the number of women in the scientific and technological workforce / Sue V. Rosser -- The worker as active subject : enlivening the "new sociology of work" / Randy Hodson -- Employers, employees, and work : a research program / Arne L. Kalleberg and Richard C. Rockwell.

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