Causes of Structural Unemployment Four Factors That Keep People From - the Jobs They Deserv

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that "jobless recoveries" could become a permanent feature of Western economies.

List of contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes viii
Abbreviations x
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 26
3 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 53
4 Technological Change and Job Loss 82
5 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 113
6 Fixing Structural Unemployment 142
7 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173
Notes 179
References 190
Subject Index 214
Name Index 223

About the author

Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky
Christopher Oliver is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kentucky
David Luke is Research Assistant at the University of Kentucky

Product details

• Authors: T Janoski, Thomas Janoski, Thomas (University of Kentucky) Janoski, Thomas Luke Janoski, Janoski Thomas, David Luke, David (University of Kentucky) Luke, Christopher Oliver, Christopher (University of Kentucky) Oliver, Oliver Christopher
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2014
• EAN: 9780745670287
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-7028-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Work & Society; Work & Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Labour / income economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment