Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
of the richest people have property as their main source of wealth.96 The global cities of London, Hong Kong, and New York all have two-tier labor markets where most of the gains accrue to a small number of people at the top. The state’s primary role is in safeguarding rising property
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston · 18 Apr 2016 · 338pp · 92,465 words
them for next to nothing. But a general deceleration of wages hurts everyone and big disparities between scarce fields and well-stocked ones create a two-tiered labor market in which graduates of elite institutions prosper and degree holders from more modest ones flounder. Although a weakened economy has highlighted this problem, oversupply was
The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
many expectations, it is no wonder that the ethical discourse of work is becoming ever more abstracted from the realities of many jobs. Within the two-tiered labor market, we find new modes of “over-valorized work” at one end of the labor hierarchy and “devalorized work” at the other (Peterson 2003, 76). Making
Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
by Reihan Salam · 24 Sep 2018 · 197pp · 49,240 words
Swedes of a libertarian bent have welcomed the new openness to low-skill labor. The question is whether most Swedes are eager to embrace a two-tiered labor market, in which an underclass of low-skill immigrants does work that was previously done satisfactorily by a combination of better-paid workers and machines. The
Give People Money
by Annie Lowrey · 10 Jul 2018 · 242pp · 73,728 words
antipathy. It might increase anti-immigrant sentiment, and spur the adoption of anti-immigrant restrictions and policies. It might also foster the creation of a two-tier labor market, with businesses seeking out undocumented workers who would be far cheaper to hire than native-born citizens. Less migration would mean a more sclerotic economy
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
by Jeremias Prassl · 7 May 2018 · 491pp · 77,650 words
the overall gains of increased economic activity—but how equally are these distributed? Commentators * * * 28 Work on Demand are concerned about the entrenchment of a two-tiered labour market. As The Economist has noted, gig-economy entrepreneurs: have created a plethora of on-demand companies that put time-starved urban professionals in timely contact
The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
by Diane Coyle · 29 Oct 1998 · 49,604 words
Europe suffered jobless rates that seemed condemned to stick in double digits. But critics and political opponents saw only the inequality and insecurity of a two-tier labour market, which might help explain the Labour opposition’s landslide victory in May 1997. There is clearly something in the charge of unfairness. Earnings inequality increased
The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
by Faisal Islam · 28 Aug 2013 · 475pp · 155,554 words
December 2011 wanted to improve the lot of the jobless youth by making it easier and cheaper to fire highly protected older workers. Spain’s ‘two-tier’ labour market meant it was much easier to lay off younger workers, while older workers stayed in their jobs. The new government’s reforms should in theory