The trouble with getting ahead: Youth employment, labor organizing, and the higher education question

Article Abstract:

Wages and working conditions for youth in the low-end service sector are notoriously dismal, recent attempts to use collective action to improve these conditions, however have been limited in number and effectiveness. Addressing the situation requires attention to many of the same issues that concern labor overall but sooner or later, youth labor organizing must also deal with the higher education question that helps to define young workers as a distinctive group in the first place.

Government domestic functions, Education, Higher, Higher education, Youth, Youth employment, Education policy, Educational aspects

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Relational exploitation: The informal organization of day labor agencies

Article Abstract:

The qualitative and quantitative evidence to uncover the informal order of the day labor hall, as experienced by homeless workers are discussed. It is argued that dispatchers' perceptions of workers' loyalty and reliability shape the allocation of rewards, thus inserting a small measure of stability into highly contingent form of work.

Labor force information, Analysis, Employment, Employee loyalty, Day labor

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