This volume looks at the growing gap between rich and poor in California’s postindustrial economy. This volume explores the bifurcation of the state’s workforce, with blue-collar, lower-level white collar, and service workers at one end and professionals and managers at the other, and evaluates the challenges faced by the state’s low-wage workers, who find that their opportunities for upward mobility are increasing compromised.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Ruth Milkman

Part I New Perspectives on Employment Trends

Growing Apart: The New Economy and Job Polarization in California, 1992-2000
Ruth Milkman and Rachel E. Dwyer

Recession and Reaction: The Impact of the Economic Downturn on California Labor
Manuel Pastor and Carol Zabin

Part II Findings from The California Workforce Survey

The 2001-2002 Workforce Survey: Background, Methods, and Sample
Thomas Piazza, Neil Fligstein, and Margaret Weir

Work in the Postindustrial Economy of California
Neil Fligstein and Ofer Sharone

Income Polarization and California's Social Contract
Margaret Weir

Part III California Labor Law and Labor Relations

Labor Law Enforcement in California, 1970-2000
Limor Bar-Cohen and Deana Milam Carrillo

California Labor Relations: Background and Developments through Mid-2002
Daniel J.B. Mitchell

The State of California Labor is produced by the UC Institutes of Industrial Relations at UCLA and UC Berkeley. Subscriptions and single issues of the print edition can be ordered from the publisher, University of California Press. The contents of earlier volumes are also available in PDF:

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• The State of California Labor 2003
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