Introduction: the future of work in Massachusetts / Tom Juravich
An overview of the economy, work, and the people who do it in Massachusetts
The economy: a growing divide with uneven prospects / Mark Brenner
Low-wage women workers / Marlene Kim
Massachusetts in the global economy: production shifts, outsourcing, and deindustrialization
Capital mobility and job loss: corporate restructuring, production shifts, and outsourcing / Stephanie Luce and Kate Bronfenbrenner
Greater-Springfield deindustrialization: staggering job loss, a shrinking revenue base, and grinding decline / Robert Forrant
Beyond the Massachusetts miracle: the future of high tech
Software and Internet industry workers / Sarah Kuhn and Paula Rayman
Transitions of a displaced high-tech labor force / William Lazonick and Steven Quimby
Health care in the Commonwealth: challenges and prospects
Career ladders in the long-term-care sector: prospects for job mobility in the new economy / Randall P. Wilson
Work time, class, and gender in four medical occupations / Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, and Dana Huyser
More than a paycheck: work and family in Massachusetts
Work-family challenges for blue-collar parents / Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Heather Bourne, and Karen Meteyer
Love's labor's lost?: costs and benefits of paid family and medical leave / Randy Albelda and Alan Clayton-Matthews.
