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“Rewriting the Social Contract — A New Game at the Office: Many Young Workers Accept Fewer Guarantees”

Filed under Economic Trends, On the Job
Posted by Libraries, January 05, 2006
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times, December 5, 2005

“How is the game played now?”
The “loyalty for security” social contract between workers and companies of the 1960s has evolved to the market-oriented, “productive” social contract of today. Rapidly changing technology, a global economy, and faster moving markets shape this new understanding of the modern work agreement. The agreement is not easy to define, but one observer described it as, “If you give, you get.”

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