The Disposable Work Force: Worker Displacement and Employment Instability in America (Social Institutions and Social Change)

-Moore (sociology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) examines the economic consequences and causes of displacement in the book's first two sections, and alternative programs to reduce the need for displacement or ease its effects in the third... [T]his volume summarizes much material, is a good read, and provides a strong bibliography. All Collections.- --H. Kasper, Choice -[A] commanding analysis of the growing but often neglected phenomenon of worker displacement. Compassionate but reasoned, Moore's study offers both macro-level and plant-level analyses, and weaves together sociology, economics, policy analysis, and history.- --Ross Koppel, Ph.D., President, Social Research Corporation "Moore (sociology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) examines the economic consequences and causes of displacement in the book's first two sections, and alternative programs to reduce the need for displacement or ease its effects in the third... [T]his volume summarizes much material, is a good read, and provides a strong bibliography. All Collections." --H. Kasper, Choice "[A] commanding analysis of the growing but often neglected phenomenon of worker displacement. Compassionate but reasoned, Moore's study offers both macro-level and plant-level analyses, and weaves together sociology, economics, policy analysis, and history." --Ross Koppel, Ph.D., President, Social Research Corporation