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Building 65 Million Good Jobs

29 Aug 2017

BUILDING 65 MILLION GOOD JOBS The Geography of Low-Paid Service Class Jobs and How to Begin to Upgrade Them Richard Florida Charlotta Mellander Karen M. King Contents Executive Summary 6 Introduction 8 1. The Rise of the Service Class 10 2. Inside the Service Class 12 3. The Where of the Service Class 18. [...] It takes a detailed look at the make-up pay just $32,272 a year (less than half of the and geography of the Service Class, identifyies $75,759 that members of the Creative Class the kinds of Service Class jobs that are most earn), are less secure, and have higher concen- amenable to upgrading, and outlines a broad trations of women, minorities, and younger strategy for improving Service Class work [...] The first section outlines the dramatic growth The fading of blue-collar jobs and the splitting of the Service Class over the course of the 20th of the labor force into a minority of high-paying and 21st centuries. [...] The second section doc- Creative Class jobs and an even larger number uments the low wages paid for Service Class of low-paying, precarious Service Class jobs work and charts the large share of women and is behind the decline of the American mid- minorities that make up the Service Class. [...] Health Care all Service Class workers, earning an average Support workers average of $28,300 each year, of $21,580 annually — just two-thirds of the 88 percent of the average Service Class worker, average Service Class wage and less than half of and 61 percent of the average wage across the the national average.
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ISBN
9781928162148
Pages
52
Published in
Toronto, ON, CA

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