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02903aam a22003858i 4500 001 2DE78D5AC93111E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 180312s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018007859 020 $a 0451497252 : HRD 020 $a 9780451497253 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d NjBwBT $d SILO 050 00 $a HD8072.5 $b .S49 2018 082 00 $a 331.0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Shell, Ellen Ruppel, $d 1952- $e author. 245 14 $a The job : $b the future of work in the modern era / $c Ellen Ruppel Shell. 263 $a 1810 264 1 $a New York : $b Currency, $c 2018. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In a brilliant but sobering work of journalism, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a hard look at the forces that are reshaping the nature of work in America, overturning the often espoused mythology that retraining workers in software, engineering, and the sciences is the key to job security and career success, and achieving the middle-class dream in the future. In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts, to a father of three in Appalachia finding purpose andmeaning working in a convenience store chain, to an unemployed autoworker retraining in "advanced manufacturing," Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological well-being--and how so many of the avenues to well-paid and meaningful work will be challenged in the years ahead. The future of work is not being faced openly. We live in a world where the rewards of employment are concentrated in the hands of the few. Today, the top 10 percent of wage earners in the U.S. bring home 9 times the income of the other 90 percent, and the top.01 percent earn 184 times as much. The economic gap between the few and the many is so vast, Shell says, that we might as well be members of a different species. Moreover, since the 1970s, real wages formost of us have stagnated, and with it our purchasing power. Half of all Americans earn less than $30,000 a year. And the paths to landing those good-paying jobs that secure our financial future are disappearing in the wake of automation and the rise ofAI"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Work $z United States $x Forecasting. 650 0 $a Labor $z United States $x Forecasting. 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 6 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611015449.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629013907.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190226010754.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20181127015943.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20181106011535.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006121652.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2DE78D5AC93111E88539171297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search