Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of KentuckyChristopher Oliver is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of KentuckyDavid Luke is Research Assistant at the University of Kentucky

• Tables, Figures, and Boxes viiiAbbreviations xAcknowledgments xiii1 Introduction 12 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 263 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 534 Technological Change and Job Loss 825 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 1136 Fixing Structural Unemployment 1427 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173Notes 179References 190Subject Index 214Name Index 223

''The authors deftly integrate sociological, political, and economic perspectives to highlight the major changes in the structure of labor markets that are responsible for the upsurge in the structural unemployment and economic inequality that haunt the contemporary United States.''Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill''The Causes of Structural Unemployment is a comprehensive look at the causes of long-term structural unemployment in affluent industrialized nations. It combines and illustrates how individual biographies are tied up to larger social and economic processes - how the single-minded focus on shareholder value and market manipulations destroys the labor market for good jobs.''Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa"This is a well-researched book with detailed references. It successfully links globalisation to the rise of long-term unemployment in the advanced Western countries."Political Studies Review

Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of KentuckyChristopher Oliver is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of KentuckyDavid Luke is Research Assistant at the University of Kentucky

• Tables, Figures, and Boxes viiiAbbreviations xAcknowledgments xiii1 Introduction 12 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 263 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 534 Technological Change and Job Loss 825 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 1136 Fixing Structural Unemployment 1427 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173Notes 179References 190Subject Index 214Name Index 223

''The authors deftly integrate sociological, political, and economic perspectives to highlight the major changes in the structure of labor markets that are responsible for the upsurge in the structural unemployment and economic inequality that haunt the contemporary United States.''Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill''The Causes of Structural Unemployment is a comprehensive look at the causes of long-term structural unemployment in affluent industrialized nations. It combines and illustrates how individual biographies are tied up to larger social and economic processes - how the single-minded focus on shareholder value and market manipulations destroys the labor market for good jobs.''Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa"This is a well-researched book with detailed references. It successfully links globalisation to the rise of long-term unemployment in the advanced Western countries."Political Studies Review

Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of KentuckyChristopher Oliver is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of KentuckyDavid Luke is Research Assistant at the University of Kentucky

• Tables, Figures, and Boxes viiiAbbreviations xAcknowledgments xiii1 Introduction 12 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 263 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 534 Technological Change and Job Loss 825 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 1136 Fixing Structural Unemployment 1427 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173Notes 179References 190Subject Index 214Name Index 223

''The authors deftly integrate sociological, political, and economic perspectives to highlight the major changes in the structure of labor markets that are responsible for the upsurge in the structural unemployment and economic inequality that haunt the contemporary United States.''Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill''The Causes of Structural Unemployment is a comprehensive look at the causes of long-term structural unemployment in affluent industrialized nations. It combines and illustrates how individual biographies are tied up to larger social and economic processes - how the single-minded focus on shareholder value and market manipulations destroys the labor market for good jobs.''Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa"This is a well-researched book with detailed references. It successfully links globalisation to the rise of long-term unemployment in the advanced Western countries."Political Studies Review