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Love the Work, Hate the Job

Audiobook

Over the years, American jobs have become more intellectually challenging and less physically exhausting. Yet more and more American workers — blue collar, white collar, and pink collar — are expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs. They love their careers, but not their working conditions. What turns a model employee into a malcontent?

David Kusnet followed the workers at four companies in the Seattle area in the turning-point year of 2000: Microsoft, Boeing, Kaiser Aluminum, and Northwest Hospital. He tells the stories of skilled and dedicated workers battling not so much for better pay and benefits as for respect and a say in the future of the business. Indiscriminate cost-cutting and the pursuit of short-term profits prevent the best workers from doing their best work, fueling the workplace conflicts of the twenty-first century.


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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781481566940
  • File size: 236560 KB
  • Release date: May 30, 2008
  • Duration: 08:12:49

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781481566940
  • File size: 236913 KB
  • Release date: June 26, 2008
  • Duration: 08:12:49
  • Number of parts: 8

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subjects

Business Nonfiction

Languages

English

Over the years, American jobs have become more intellectually challenging and less physically exhausting. Yet more and more American workers — blue collar, white collar, and pink collar — are expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs. They love their careers, but not their working conditions. What turns a model employee into a malcontent?

David Kusnet followed the workers at four companies in the Seattle area in the turning-point year of 2000: Microsoft, Boeing, Kaiser Aluminum, and Northwest Hospital. He tells the stories of skilled and dedicated workers battling not so much for better pay and benefits as for respect and a say in the future of the business. Indiscriminate cost-cutting and the pursuit of short-term profits prevent the best workers from doing their best work, fueling the workplace conflicts of the twenty-first century.


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