This book chronicles the complex connections between race and class that have marked American social reform since the New Deal, revealing an aspect of the civil rights struggle that that has been too long overlooked or obscured: the struggle for policies to expand social and economic welfare for blacks and whites alike.

1. Mapping the Contours of Work 1 Scenes From the New Economy 3 Culture and Work 6 Structure and Work 11 Class Structures 12 Job Markets and Job Demands 13 Demography and the New Labor Force 16 Agency and Careers 18 Conclusion 20 2. How New Is the New Economy? 23 The Old in the New 24 A Post-Industrial Society? 24 The End of Mass Production? 26 New Cultures of Control? 30 The End of Organized Labor? 32 A New Global Economy? 36 The Old in the New: A Summary 38 Class Chasms in the New Economy 38 Class and Opportunity in the United States 39 Class and Opportunity in the Developing World 44 Are International Economic Divides Widening or Narrowing? 46 Conclusion 51 3. Gender Chasms in the New Economy 53 When did Home Work Become Nonwork? 54 Women's Participation in the Paid Labor Force in America 57 Gender Inequalities in Compensation 59 Socialization, Career Selection, and Career Paths 61 Interpersonal Discrimination in the Workplace 68 Structural Dimensions of Gender Discrimination 73 The Devaluation of Women's Work 74 How Job Designs Discriminate 75 Strategies to Bridge the Care Gaps: International Comparisons 78 Conclusion 84 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Legacies of the Past, Problems in the Present 87 Histories of Race, Ethnicity, and Work 88 African American Exceptionality 88 The Immigrant Experience 90 The Magnitude of Racial Inequality in the New Economy 93 Intergenerational Transmission of Resources 96 Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Capital 97 Race, Ethnicity, and Human Capital 98 Race, Ethnicity, and Social Capital 100 Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Capital 102 Geographic Distribution of Race and Work Opportunity 104 Racial Discrimination 107 Prejudice and Discrimination 107 Racialized Jobs 109 Race, Ethnicity, and Work: Social Policy 110 Affirmative Action 111 Immigration Policy 113 Conclusion 117 5. Whose Jobs Are Secure? 119 Risk and Work: Historical and Comparative Views 120 How Insecure Are Workers in the New Economy? 125 The Costs of Job Loss and Insecurity 130 Responding to Insecurity: Old and New Careers 134 Conclusion 139 6. A Fair Day's Work? The Intensity and Scheduling of Jobs in the New Economy 141 Time, Intensity, and Work 142 How Long Are We Working? Comparative Frameworks 145 Working Long, Working Hard 151 Why Are Americans Working So Much? 153 Nonstandard Schedules: Jobs in a 24/7 Economy 157 How Americans Deal With Overwork 160 Conclusion 163 7. Reshaping the Contours of the New Economy 165 Opportunity Chasms 166 Class Chasms 166 Gender Chasms 167 Racial and Ethnic Chasms 168 International Chasms 169 The Agents of Change 171 The Role of Individuals 171 The Role of Activist Groups 173 The Role of Organized Labor 175 The Role of Employers 179 The Role of Government 182 The Role of International Organizations 187 Conclusion 192.

At age twenty, Suzy Hansen's life changed. On a lonely country road in broad daylight, her car was engulfed by a massive ball of white light, resulted in ninety minutes of missing time and the unfathomable experience of "waking" after dark. This riveting experience led to her discovery of an alternative reality - time spent with extraterrestrials on-board their craft since childhood, and in fact, since her inception as a soul. The Dual Soul Connection - the Alien Agenda for Human Advancement, uniquely combines absorbing details of the life-long alien encounters of UFO researcher and experiencer Suzy Hansen (NZ), with scientific examination by Dr. Rudy Schild, Emeritus Astrophysicist, Harvard/Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (USA). Hansen and Dr. Schild address such issues as alien culture, spirituality and consciousness, alongside scientific concepts of advanced physics and organic "conscious" technology - all within the framework of Hansen's contact with these non-human species. Significantly, the book outlines human participation in complex alien programmes that assist and advance humankind, and Hansen's experience of a dual soul identity central to this positive agenda. Hansen's clear empirical approach gives the fullest description of how this off-planet civilization seeks to prepare us for contact, and answers the "why" question by describing in detail the "how."

"The central aim of this book is to consider to what extent changes in organisations and in the nature of jobs are compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The book questions what sort of dilemmas modern and future employees face, in terms of shaping their careers and organising their lives at home. The authors formulate answers to these problematic questions by shedding light on relevant developments in the European labour markets, the European workplaces, in (flexible) working patterns, changing preferences for working hours and in gender relations at work.".

How to give working families the tools and opportunities to prosper in the new economy: a call to action for families, business, labor, and government. Many American families have not prospered in the new "knowledge economy." The layoffs, restructurings, and wage and benefit cuts that have followed the short-lived boom of the 1990s threaten our deeply held values of justice, fairness, family, and work. These values -- and not those superficial ones political pollsters ask about -- are the foundation of the American dream of good jobs, fair pay, and opportunities for all. In this call to action for families, business, labor, and government, Thomas Kochan outlines ways in which we can empower working families to earn a good living by doing satisfying work while still having time for family and community life. We cannot make the transition to a knowledge economy, writes Kochan, with a workforce that is stressed, frustrated, and insecure. Businesses need to rebuild relationships with their employees based on trust. And working families need to take control of their own destinies. First, we can take action that goes beyond the workplace buzzwords flexible and family friendly to design systems that support productive work and healthy family life. We can invest in better basic education and life-long learning, and we can work toward strategies for creating and sustaining good jobs with portable benefits. We need organizations that value investors of human capital -- their employees -- as highly as they do investors of financial capital, and we need a renewed labor movement to give workers a stronger voice. Kochan lays out an agenda for working families in the twenty-first century that calls for business, labor, government, and workers to come together to make the changes that will allow us all to benefit from the new economy. The solution to our problems, he points out, is too important to be left to "the market."

Popular perception holds that presidents act "first and alone," resorting to unilateral orders to promote an agenda and head off unfavorable legislation. Little research, however, has considered the diverse circumstances in which such orders are issued. The Dual Executive reinterprets how and when presidents use unilateral power by illuminating the dual roles of the president. Drawing from an original data set of over 5,000 executive orders and proclamations (the two most frequently used unilateral orders) from the Franklin D. Roosevelt to the George W. Bush administrations (1933–2009), this book situates unilateral orders within the broad scope of executive–legislative relations. Michelle Belco and Brandon Rottinghaus shed light on the shared nature of unilateral power by recasting the executive as both an aggressive "commander" and a cooperative "administrator" who uses unilateral power not only to circumvent Congress, but also to support and facilitate its operations.