Emerging From Turbulence - Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today

Informationen zum Autor Leon Grunberg is professor emeritus of sociology, University of Puget Sound. Sarah Moore is chair and professor of psychology, University of Puget Sound. Together they are the authors of Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers. Klappentext Emerging from Turbulence tells the stories of Boeing workers whose lives underwent dramatic shifts as a result of recent changes in the American economy. Workers' own words show the shifting landscape of the American workplace as pension funds evaporate, corporations buy each other out, and companies like Boeing stop seeing themselves as a family.Emerging from Turbulence tells the stories of Boeing workers whose lives underwent dramatic shifts as a result of recent changes in the American economy. Workers' own words show the shifting landscape of the American workplace as pension funds evaporate, corporations buy each other out, and companies like Boeing stop seeing themselves as a family. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Boeing's Transformation and America's New Social Contract Part I: Retired from Boeing 2. Heritage Boeing 3. No Longer Family Part II: Still Employed at Boeing 4. Still Family 5. I Work to Live 6. Permanently Scarred 7. Attached to Work, Detached from Company Part III: Newly Hired at Boeing 8. A Bright Future 9. A Second Career 10. Not What I Expected 11. Accepting the New Reality Part IV: Conclusion 12. Implications of the New Social Contract AppendixNotes Index

Product details

• Authors: Leon Grunberg, Leon Moore Grunberg, Grunberg Leon, Sarah Moore, Moore Sarah
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9781442248540
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4854-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General