New Modern Times

David B. Bills is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education and Chair of the Division of Planning, Policy, and Leadership Studies at The University of Iowa.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction David B. BillsPart I. Historical Perspectives 1.Technology and Work: A Social and Historical Overview of U.S. Industrialization Stephen Meyer2. Work Skill in Historical Perspective Robert Asher3. Technological Change, Skill Requirements, and Education: The Case for Uncertainty Kenneth I. Spenner4. Vocational Education—Meeting Manpower Needs and Providing Student Opportunities Chet Rzonca, Douglas Gustafson, and Sandra BoutellePart II. Current Transformations and the Future of Work 5. Temporary Work and Labor Market Detachment: New Mechanisms and New Opportunities Donald Mayall6. Skills Shortage of Management Shortage? Ruy A. Teixeira and Lawrence Mishel7. A Sociological Commentary on Workforce 2000 Nancy DiTomaso and Judith I. Friedman8. Potential Effects of Increasing the Number of Women in the Scientific and Technological Workforce Sue V. RosserPart III. Future Directions 9. The Worker as Active Subject: Enlivening the "New Sociology of Work" Randy Hodson10. Employers, Employees, and Work: A Research Program Arne L. Kalleberg and Richard C. RockwellContributors Author Index Subject Index

"This book presents an extended and thoughtful examination of work in the U.S. after the turn of the century. It is the state of the art in the sociology of work." — Richard H. Hall, State University of New York at Albany