The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

I enjoyed the research rigor Weil put into understanding, explaining, and outlining the history, rationale, and consequences of fissuring work. Highly recommend this book for Human Resources, compensation, economists or students who want to understand why work is changing for many.

A needed complement to the growing literature on high and rising economic inequality in America. Offers a serious, powerful examination of trends in employment and their implications for wages and working conditions among the most vulnerable segments of the labor force.

This is a path breaking book exploring and analyzing the increasing complex employment relations as employers franchise. subcontract, and otherwise construct intermediaries to insulate themselves from the obligations of being an employers. It is a must read for anyone in the field

The Fissured Workplace focuses on the downsides of the new economy for workers. The book is thorough and well researched, but also long and wonky at times. It provides many examples of how workers are hurt by the new economy shifts towards outsourcing, partnering and contingent work.The book blames the usual suspects (the rich, Wall Street, corporate execs, etc.) for these shifts.I would have preferred a more balanced analysis of these shifts instead of the one sided, politically progressive point of view presented in this book. But the downsides of the new economy are real and this book does a good job of chronicling them.Liberals will definitely prefer this book over conservative readers. But if conservatives can get past the liberal rhetoric they will learn a lot about the downsides of the new economy.

This book gives an in depth look into modern business practices. How this notion of fissuring is causing extensive damage within big businesses in the public sector, making unions a thing of the past and causing a great strain on the working class. Before this book I was not fully aware of the impact outsourcing had on big business and I am extremely glad to have found this.This author writes to a specific audience, one with an economic background so it can be a little confusing at times but well worth the read.

Great Book. Read it for a labor economics class!

The book deal with a subject that I find interesting. The phenomenon described in the book has profound consequences for the workforce of rich and developed countries and for their societies as the whole. I was hoping to get a better understanding of its mechanisms and get some recommendations on how we should deal with it.However, the amount of insight the author offers is disproportional to the volume of the book. He repeats 3 ideas almost verbatum over and over again until you get tired of waiting for something valuable to be said. The intro is probably the most interesting part, you don't need to buy the book to read it, it is available for free as a preview. It is pity, the subject deserves better.

The book is, admittedly, a tough read and intended for a scholarly audience. It's important as an insight into the Dr. Weil's intellectual paradigm. Dr. Weil is the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the Dept. of Labor. There are a number of public policy issues that Dr. Weil will deal with during his tenure at the agency and this book gives a peak into his thinking.

Interesting

Um dos melhores livros que já li sobre o trabalho.

Very interesting read about precarious employment relationships