This volume covers a broad range of topics that explore the enormous challenges posed by a quickly changing workforce and economy, including earnings inequality, immigrant labor, informal employment, agricultural workers, the minimum wage, worker safety, welfare reform, and organized labor.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Paul M. Ong and James R. Lincoln
The State of California: Overview
James R. Lincoln and Paul M. Ong
Part I Broad Trends
A Forecast for the California Labor Market
Daniel J. B. Mitchell
Trends in Earnings Inequity
Paul M. Ong and Michela Zonta
Immigrant Labor in California
Abel Valenzuela Jr. and Paul M. Ong
Part II Sectoral Patterns
Informal Employment in California
Enrico A. Marcelli
Labor Relations in California Agriculture
Philip Martin
A Small Raise for the Bottom
Michel Reich and Peter Hall
High-Tech Industries in California: Panacea or Problem?
Steve Raphael, Claire Brown, and Ben Campbell
Part III On-the-Job-Issues
Training and Work-Organization Practices of California's Private Employers
Christopher L. Erickson and Sanford M. Jacoby
Performance and Web-Based Learning
Archie Kleingartner and Rong Jiang
How Safe are California's Workers and What Needs to Change
Marianne Brown
Part IV Welfare to Work
Welfare Reform and the Labor Market Outcomes of Women
David Card
Welfare Reform and the California Labor Market
Ev elyn Blumenberg
Welfare to Work and the Entry-Level Labor Market
Paul M. Ong and Shannon McConville
Part IV Strengthening Workers' Voices
Union Organizing in California: Challenges and Opportunities
Carol Zarbin, with Katie Quan and Linda Delp
Organizing the Unorganizable
Edna Bonacich and Fernando Gapasin
Labor and Community Collaboration
Marcos Vargas
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