POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Precarity, Human Capital, Economic Policy Institute
1 Feb 2018
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Reading journal 4: kids these days, chapter 3: work (sucks) by malcom harris. In the third chapter of kids these days by malcom harris, titled work (sucks) , an issue arises. There are many arguments that harris brings up to justify how bad jobs are getting worse and that concerns the changing job dynamic impacting millennials in the twenty-first-century. The thesis of the reading explains that, although we train kids to achieve good jobs, the reality is that workers are getting paid less as their productivity increases. good jobs are getting better. One of the main ones is what the sociologist arne kalleberg calls. Polarization there is nothing in between good and bad jobs. This was evidenced by the 2013 report from the. Bureau of labor statistics by stating that union membership has halved since 1983. Another argument is the rise of deunionization , meaning that workers are losing the ability to.
