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Item Information   Holdings     Summary       More by this author     Guendelsberger, Emily, author.     Subjects     Guendelsberger, Emily.     Working class -- United States     Unskilled labor -- United States.     Minimum wage -- United States     Autobiographies.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Guendelsberger, Emily, author.       by title:      On the clock : what ...         MARC Display

On the clock : what low-wage work did to me and how it drives America insane / Emily Guendelsberger. by Guendelsberger, Emily, author. Little, Brown and Company, 2019. Subjects Guendelsberger, Emily.   Working class -- United States   Unskilled labor -- United States.   Minimum wage -- United States   Autobiographies. Description:  xi, 335 pages : illustration ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: In the weeds -- Amazon -- Convergys -- McDonald's -- Conclusion: Out of the weeds. A college-educated young professional details the grueling realities of hourly labor for the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce while outlining strategies for more humane employment practices. "After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a call center, a place where even bathroom breaks were timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a San Francisco McDonalds, narrowly escaping revenge seeking customers who pelted her with condiments. Across three jobs, and in three different parts of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. workplace. ON THE CLOCK takes us behind the scenes of the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce to understand the future of work in America and its present. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity. ON THE CLOCK explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans." Publisher's description Form:  text txt unmediated n volume nc   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Walter Schroeder Library Circulating Books HD8072.5 .G84 2019 Available Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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