Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Unemployment is down, but so is job security. Careers can end suddenly and salaries can be drastically cut. How can workers moderate the effects of this fundamental change?
This new analysis connects religious understandings of economic justice to the issues facing both workers and the broader community. The knowledge elites, Andolsen maintains, need to shorten the distance between themselves and the unskilled and poor in order to express solidarity for common concerns. The celebration of the Eucharist is used as a central motif for this solidarity.
The New Job Contract digs beneath the buyouts and restructurings to unearth the deeper economic transition -- and reveal its implications for society and for families.