Windows on the Workplace (Greenbaum, 2004) tells stories of division of work that results in pieces of work that are broken apart by specialization, simplification and standardization, but always blamed on ‘technology’.
Here are some updated pictures of work from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which while having trouble keeping track of employment and unemployment based on the old model of standard job titles, nevertheless manages to turn out some interesting reports. See for example:
Bureaur of Labor statistics inequality statistics
and/or take a look at this report detailing employment/unemployment by race and ethnicity. What questions does it raise:
BLS Employment by race and ethnicity
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