Changing Contours of Work. Stephen Sweet

       1.1 Meg: A Successful Trader Strives to Manage a Demanding Career With a Child Who Has Special Needs3

       1.2 Tammy: A Midcareer Manufacturing Worker Attempts to Salvage a Career and a Community4

       1.3 Emily: A Contract Worker Navigates Insecure Employment5

       1.4 Rain: A Chinese Immigrant Finds Work in the American Food Service Industry6

       1.5 Kavita: A Young Indian Woman Navigates Night Work and Call Center Employment7

       1.6 Mike: A Disadvantaged Youth Enters a Life of Crime8

       1.7 The Film Modern Times Offered a Poignant Illustration of the Alienating Nature of Work in Factory Jobs in the Old Economy14

       1.8 Age Distributions and Predicted Distribution in the United States: 1940–206022

       2.1 Trends in Employment in Twelve Major Sectors: United States, 1940–201731

       2.2 Trends in Employment in Megasectors: United States, 1940–201734

       2.3 Percentage of Companies Offering Flexible Work Options to Most or All of Their Employees: United States, 200950

       2.4 Percentage of American Workers Who Were Union Members: United States, 1930–201651

       2.5 Trade Union Members as Percentage of All Employees: International Comparisons, 201555

       3.1 Incomes Received by Each Fifth of Households: 1970–2016 (Prior Years Converted to 2016 Dollar Values)66

       3.2 Share of Aggregate Income Received by Each Fifth and Top 5% of Households: 1970 and 201668

       3.3 Educational Attainment of Adults, Age Twenty-Five Years and Older: United States, 1970–201675

       3.4 Educational Attainment and Synthetic Work-Life Earnings Estimates for All Workers in 200976

       3.5 A Schematic of Intergenerational Resource Transfers80

       3.6 World Population Projections (in Millions): 1950–205084

       3.7 How Value Accumulates in a Global Supply Chain87

       3.8 Per Capita Purchasing Power From 1990 to 2016: Comparison of the United States, China, and Ghana89

       4.1 Government Public Expenditure as Percentage of Gross Domestic Product: International Comparisons, 2014100

       4.2 Unemployment Entitlements: International Comparisons102

       4.3 Trends in Mass Layoffs in the United States: 1996–2012105

       4.4 Job Security Configurations of Dual-Earner Professional Couples (80% Confidence That Jobs Will Be There in Two Years)108

       4.5 Percentage of Displaced Professional Workers Who Received Notification That Their Jobs Would Be Eliminated111

       5.1 Use of Time as a Means to Organize Work Remains a Legacy of the Old Economy132

       5.2 Percentage of Workers According to Weekly Work Hours: United States, 2016137

       5.3 Average Annual Work Hours: International Comparisons, 2016139

       5.4 Annual Paid Vacation Days and Paid Holidays: International