{"id":5944,"date":"2016-02-05T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T01:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/njfac.org\/?page_id=5944"},"modified":"2024-10-19T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:33:52","slug":"work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wages-2\/work\/","title":{"rendered":"Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is good work? SAFETY<\/a>\u00a0 STABILITY & FLEXIBILITY<\/a> TRANSPARENCY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SHARED PROSPERITY<\/a>\u00a0 FAIR PAY<\/a> \u00a0 INCLUSION & INPUT\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0SUPPORT & CONNECTION\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0 GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT<\/a><\/p>\n

The Role of Full Employment in achieving Good Work: “Our experience with periods of labor shortage indicates that its first effect is greatly to increase the bargaining power of labor, both individually and collectively. This results in steady improvement of wages and working conditions, which means that employers must seek to make employment attractive, since the workers are no longer motivated by the fear of losing their jobs. A shift of workers from the less pleasant and remunerative occupations occur, so that standards are raised at the lower levels. The status of labor will improve, since employers can no longer rely upon the discipline of discharge to enforce authority. The tendency will be for labor to have some participation in industrial and economic policy.” Eulau, Ezekiel, Hansen, Loeb, Jr. “The road to freedom: Full employment,” New Republic<\/em>, Special Section, 9\/24\/1945, p. 395<\/p>\n

Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A Philosopher Looks at Work in Our Modern World<\/a>, KLG, Naked Capitalism 1\/24<\/p>\n

“…until we cure the world of the economists’s obsession with productivity that maximises material input in proportion to labour cost we will not solve three problems…[sustainability, meaningful work, public services].\u00a0 Do we trash the planet or have things we value, like the NHS? That is the question<\/a> Murphy, Tax Research UK 4\/23<\/p>\n

On the Clock and Tracked to the Minute<\/a>, Kantor & Sundaram, NYT 8\/15\/22<\/p>\n

The Great Escape The most vulnerable people in America have started the closest thing we\u2019ve seen in a century to a general strike<\/a>. Dayen, TAP 11\/21<\/p>\n

Do These Viral Stories About Shitty Bosses Signal an Anti-Work Revolution?<\/span><\/a>, Ehrlich, Rolling Stone 10\/21<\/span><\/p>\n

America Runs on \u2018Dirty Work<\/a>\u2019, Press, NYT 8\/21 <\/span><\/p>\n

The Generation Shaped By Layoffs, <\/a>Chang, Medium 6\/20<\/p>\n

Bosses in the US Have Far Too Much Power to Lay Off Workers Whenever They Feel Like It<\/a>, Sheehan, Jacobin, 6\/20<\/p>\n

False Freedom: Sharing the Scraps from the Perilous Gig Economy<\/a>, Greenhouse, Lithub 8\/19<\/p>\n

Willing to pay for security: Gig workers, freelancers, and the self-employed want steady jobs, <\/span><\/a>Datta, Vox,<\/span> 7\/19<\/span><\/p>\n

A Cross-Atlantic Plan to Break Capital\u2019s Control<\/a>, Gowan & Lawrence, Jacobin 6\/19<\/p>\n

Dying on the job: How workers get hurt when businesses keep deadly secrets<\/a>, Gerard, Alternet 4\/19<\/p>\n

How Your Employer Uses Perks Like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to Control Your Life<\/a>, Tippett, the Conversation, 4\/19<\/p>\n

The Bogus Justification for Worker Non-Compete Clauses<\/a>, Vaheesan, On Labor 4\/19<\/p>\n

Where\u2019s the Gig Economy?<\/a> Workers more apt to have standard work arrangements in 2017 than in 2005.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

“Americans Are Willing to Forgo a 56% Pay Raise for Best Job Perks<\/a>,” Yadoo, Boomberg, 10\/18, based on an NBER study<\/a><\/p>\n

Low pay, poor prospects, and psychological toll: The perils of microtask work<\/a>: UN questions whether this work has any benefits for society, Geuss, Arstechnica 9\/18<\/p>\n

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Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries<\/a>,\u00a0Amazon workers … treated in ways that leave them homeless, unable to work or bereft of income after workplace accidents, Sainato, Guardian 7\/18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

CEOs vs. Workers<\/a>, Day, Jacobin 7\/18<\/span><\/p>\n

Where\u2019s the \u201cGig Economy?\u201d<\/a> Moody, Jacobin 6\/18<\/p>\n

How many gig workers are there?<\/a> Gig Economy Data Hub<\/p>\n

Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements<\/a> \u2014MAY 2017, BLS 6\/18<\/p>\n

If the economy is so great, why are 78 million hustling for dimes?<\/span><\/a> Nutting, Marketwatch 6\/18<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big Brother at Work: Employee Monitoring in the Analytics Age<\/a>, O’Connor, Who.What.Why, 5\/18<\/p>\n

Crafting a life<\/a>–White-collar workers are fleeing their desks to become brewers, bakers and pickle-makers. Ryan Avent reckons the artisanal boom points to the modern economy\u2019s failings, and maybe its future as well, 5\/18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks \u2013 even emotions.<\/a>, Saner, Guardian 5\/18<\/span><\/p>\n

Political precariat<\/a>, Telek, Open Democracy 5\/18<\/p>\n

Is Your Job Lynchian, or Is It More\u00a0Kafkaesque?<\/a>, King, Longreads, 4\/18<\/p>\n

The Emerging Plan to Save the American Labor Movement<\/a>, Matthews, Portside, 4\/18<\/p>\n

Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity<\/a>: One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits — and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this?\u00a0<\/em>Robinson, AlterNet 4\/1<\/span><\/span><\/span>8<\/p>\n

“The notion of pensions \u2014 and the idea that companies should set aside money for retirees \u2014 didn\u2019t last long. They really caught on in the mid-20th century, but today, except among government employers, the traditional pension seems destined to be an artifact of U.S. labor history.” \u2018I hope I can quit working in a few years\u2019: A preview of the U.S. without pensions<\/a>, Whoriskey Wash. Post 1<\/span>2\/17<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ending shareholder monopoly: why workers\u2019 votes promote good corporate governance,\u00a0<\/a>McGaughey, LSE 11\/17<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Where Bad Jobs Are Better<\/a>: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies, Carr\u00e9 & Tilly, Russell Sage, 11\/17<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Digitalization and the American workforce<\/a>,\u00a0Muro,\u00a0Liu, Whiton, & Kulkarni, Brookings 11\/<\/span>

Meet The Camperforce, Amazon’s Nomadic Retiree Army<\/a>, Bruder, Wired, 9\/17<\/p>\n

Condition of the workplace in the United\u00a0States<\/a>, Ruccio, Real-World Economics, 8\/17 Rand report cited<\/a><\/p>\n

To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now<\/a>, Irwin, NYT 9\/17<\/p>\n

Global Dialogue on the Future of Work We Want–Decent Jobs for All<\/a>, ILO 4\/17<\/p>\n

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The Despair of Learning That Experience No Longer Matters<\/a>, Wallace-Wells New Yorker 4\/17<\/p>\n

Will a Robot Take Your Job?<\/a>\u00a0Slides<\/a>,\u00a0Zaccone, 3\/17<\/div>\n

Working anytime, anywhere: The effects on the world of work<\/a>, Eurofound, 2\/17<\/p>\n

Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy<\/a>, Manyika et al, McKinsey 10\/16<\/p>\n

How work can lead to suicide in a globalised economy<\/a>, Waters & Chan, 8\/16<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Busting the Myths of a Workerless Future, <\/a>Moody, Labor Notes, 7\/16<\/p>\n

‘Middle class’ used to denote comfort and security. Not anymore<\/a> Quart, Guardian 7\/16<\/p>\n

There are few shortages of skilled workers in America.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Civil War Didn\u2019t End Slavery After All: <\/a>The American prison system is a massive\u2014if invisible\u2014part of our economy and social fabric. Karaffa, IPS 6\/16<\/p>\n

Flexibility in the On-Demand Economy<\/a>, Smith NELP 6\/16<\/p>\n

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The Collapse of the Middle-Class Job<\/a>, Buchheit, 5\/16<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0The Political Economy of Time and \u2018Work-Life Conflict\u2019<\/a>, Boushey<\/span> 4\/16<\/div>\n

The Gig Economy Is Growing, and It Is Terrifying<\/a>, Gawker, 3\/16<\/p>\n

“…all of the net employment growth in the U.S. economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements.” Katz & Krueger, The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995-2015, <\/span><\/em>3\/16<\/a><\/p>\n

Uber business model does not justify a new \u2018independent worker\u2019\u0094 category<\/a>,\u00a0 Eisenbrey & Mishel, EPI 3\/16<\/p>\n

The Precarious Workplace<\/a>, by David Bensman, Uncommon Sense #30, 2\/16]<\/p>\n

Decent Work Agenda<\/a> ILO 1\/16<\/p>\n

Logged In<\/a> The new economy makes it harder than ever to untangle capitalism from our daily lives. Huws, 1\/16<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld Employment Social Outlook<\/a>, Trends 2016\u201d ILO<\/p>\n

“Security for a Precarious Workforce”<\/a> Am. Prospect, Bensman 12\/15<\/p>\n

Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife<\/a> among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century, Case & Deaton, 9\/15<\/p>\n

Rights On Demand: Ensuring Workplace Standards and Worker Security<\/a> in the On-Demand Economy, NELP 9\/15<\/p>\n

Conservatism Has Built a Wasteful Garrison State<\/a>, Gordon, LA Times, 10\/90<\/p>\n

What Is Good Work?<\/a> Parker, Interaction Instit. 10\/12<\/p>\n

Good Work Code <\/a>[one possible list of characteristics of good work]<\/p>\n

What Is Good Work Guidance?<\/a> Meaningful Work<\/p>\n

What is Good Work? Achieving Good Work in Turbulent Times<\/a>,\u00a0H. Gardner, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values<\/p>\n

In Praise of Leisure, Bertrand Russell 1932:<\/a><\/div>\n
“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In England, in the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day’s work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.” Russell proposed a 4-hour day.<\/div>\n

The Future of Work<\/a>, Ghosh, Frontline<\/p>\n

from TO BE OF USE, Marge Piercy<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The work of the world is common as mud.
\nBotched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
\nBut the thing worth doing well done
\nhas a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
\nGreek amphoras for wine or oil,
\nHopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
\nbut you know they were made to be used.
\nThe pitcher cries for water to carry
\nand a person for work that is real.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In truth, the average American not only wants to work, but strives to do a good job. People don\u2019t want 20 hours a week; they want a real job\u2014a full-time, 40-hour a week job. And it\u2019s more than just the money. They want a destination, a place to go when they get up in the morning, something productive to give their lives structure. Such a pity that even so modest a goal as having a full-time job is now considered a \u201cluxury.\u201d David Macaray<\/a>, LA playwright and author and former union rep.<\/p>\n

“I think one of the big wishes of the human kind is to transform things, to work on things to construct, to destroy, to sometimes construct again. And not only to look at the world, let\u2019s say, passively. I think that\u2019s the aim of humankind, being a man, a woman, is to change things.” Luc Dardenne, filmmaker<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no worse material poverty than that of not being able to earn one\u2019s daily bread.\u201d Unemployment is not inevitable; it is, rather, \u201cthe result of a prior social option and an economic system that values profits more than people…..Ours is a culture of waste. This happens when the god of money is at the center of an economic system, and not the human person…..There are economic systems that have to make war to survive. ….We have to [change the world] with courage, but also with intelligence; with tenacity, but without fanaticism; with passion, but without violence; and all together, confronting conflicts, without being ensnared in them–striving to resolve tensions to reach a higher level of unity, peace, and justice.\u201d Pope Francis<\/a><\/p>\n

When our nation was bankrupt in the thirties we created an agency to provide jobs to all at their existing level of skill. In our overwhelming affluence today what excuse is there for not setting up a national agency for full employment immediately? The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. , The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement, September 1967, APA Annual Convention, September 1967\u00a0 Invited Distinguished Address<\/a><\/p>\n

“While unemployment is an ordeal for anyone, it still appears to be more traumatic for men. Men without jobs are more likely to commit crimes and go to prison. They are less likely to wed, more likely to divorce, and more likely to father a child out of wedlock. Ironically, unemployed men tend to do even less housework than men with jobs and often retreat from family life….” “The Slow Disappearance of the American Working Man,” Mike Dorning<\/a>, Bloomberg Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is good work? SAFETY\u00a0 STABILITY & FLEXIBILITY TRANSPARENCY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SHARED PROSPERITY\u00a0 FAIR PAY \u00a0 INCLUSION & INPUT\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0SUPPORT & CONNECTION\u00a0 \u00a0 GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT The Role of Full Employment in achieving Good Work: “Our experience with periods of labor shortage indicates that its first effect is greatly to increase the bargaining power of labor, both individually… Read More Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1195,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14307,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5944\/revisions\/14307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}