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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Opportunity and Advancement for Low-Wage Workers: New Challenges, New Solutions | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Who Are the Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy? Who Employs Them? | 19 |
| 2 | Playing by the Rules, but Losing the Game: Americans in Low-Income Working Families | 21 |
| 3 | Low Earners: Who Are They? Do They Have a Way Out? | 45 |
| 4 | Employers in the Low-Wage/Low-Skill Labor Market | 67 |
| Pt. 2 | Program and Policy Priorities: Strategies to Help Low-Wage Workers Advance | 89 |
| 5 | Staying On, Moving Up: Strategies to Help Entry-Level Workers Retain Employment and Advance in Their Jobs | 91 |
| 6 | Promoting Access to Better Jobs: Lessons for Job Advancement from Welfare Reform | 111 |
| 7 | Sustained Employment and Earnings Growth: Experimental Evidence on Earnings Supplements and Preemployment Services | 135 |
| 8 | Achieving Economic Self-Sufficiency through Asset Building: Opportunities for Low-Income Workers | 151 |
| 9 | Stepping Up: State Policies and Programs Promoting Low-Wage Workers' Steady Employment and Advancement | 165 |
| Pt. 3 | Different Strokes: Overcoming Barriers Facing Particular Groups | 203 |
| 10 | Increasing Economic Security for Low-Wage Women Workers | 205 |
| 11 | Career Advancement Prospects and Strategies for Low-Wage Minority Workers | 223 |
| 12 | Latino Low-Wage Workers: A Look at Immigrant Workers | 239 |
| 13 | Increasing Opportunities for Living Wage Employment: Targeted Industry Approaches for Less-Educated Males | 259 |
| Pt. 4 | Institutions That Can Improve Low-Wage Workers' Prospects: Community Colleges, Employers, and Labor Unions | 281 |
| 14 | Second Chances in Changing Times: The Roles of Community Colleges in Advancing Low-Skilled Workers | 283 |
| 15 | Opening College Doors for Disadvantaged Hispanics: An Assessment of Effective Programs and Practices | 307 |
| 16 | Workplace Education Investments and Strategies for Lower-Wage Workers: Patterns and Practices in Employer-Provided Education | 327 |
| 17 | Union Innovations: Moving Workers from Poverty into Family-Sustaining Jobs | 347 |
| About the Editors | 363 | |
| About the Contributors | 365 | |
| Index | 371 |
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Perry Swinehart III
reviewed Low-wage workers in the new economy on January 08, 2020
Low-wage workers in the new economy
Somewhat competent and incompetent at the same time. Its signal weakness is in its narrative that otherwise seems like such a virtue, beginning with Jefferson and Madison and only reluctantly leaving them behind. In that sense, readers might enjoy it as a survey of the later years of these Founding Fathers. The problem is...this doesn’t really explain the thesis of the book. To do so would likely go farther back, to the founding of Virginia itself, and how the attitudes Dunn continually meditates on were formed. Instead, she remains fixated on a narrow thirty year period, the first three decades of the nineteenth century, as if that alone explains why Virginia went from a political dynamo to an afterthought. She might explain the method, but she never seems to understand the reason behind it. In fact, throughout the book there’s an almost apologetic approach, both to Jefferson and Madison, and little signposts, should a reader be inclined, to interpret the decline less as a purely internal affair and more a collaborative effort with a cruel outside world. Much like the more obscure figures she casts with far less sympathy to ostensibly hang the narrative. Above all, it really feels like a primer on why politics as usual remains, to this day, politics as usual, the same tactics alive in the twenty-first century as at the dawn of the country. And that’s the real tragedy here.
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