Hodson Workers' Earnings and Corporate Economic Structure

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6101-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Web PDF

Workers' Earnings and Corporate Economic Structure investigates the role of economic structure in determining employees' earnings and how workplace organization contributes to social inequality. The study focuses on the characteristics of the organization of capital rather than on different management styles or systems. Earnings as a key labor force outcome are examined at both the industry and company levels of economic organization. Comprised of nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of economic explanations for the diversity of wage labor in advanced capitalist countries, and whether the labor market in the United States is structured by the organizational characteristics of capital. The discussion then turns to the dual economy model of industrial structure; an alternative resource approach to the study of organizational structure and labor segmentation; and enterprise- and industry-level sectoral models of economic structure. Subsequent chapters explore the relationship between the sectoral models and poverty, class position, and racial and gender groups; the ability of the sectoral models to explain workers' earnings and select continuous-variable models of the impact of economic structure on workers' earnings; earnings determination within economic sectors; and the impact of economic structure across class, occupational, and status groups. The final chapter offers concluding thoughts and reflections and integrates the insights derived from the study of industrial structure with themes from the broader field of social stratification. This book will be of interest to economists, sociologists, and workers and industry officials.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodson, Randy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Workers' Earnings and Corporate Economic Structure;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;List of Tables and Figures;10
6;Preface;14
7;Acknowledgments;18
8;Chapter 1. Industrial Structure and the American Worker;20
8.1;INTRODUCTION;20
8.2;IS THERE A HOMOGENEOUS LABOR MARKET?;22
8.3;THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIC "DUALISM";23
8.4;A RESOURCE PERSPECTIVE;24
8.5;ENTERPRISE OR INDUSTRY AS THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS;25
8.6;A STRATEGY OF ANALYSIS;26
8.7;WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STUDY?;27
8.8;ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME;28
8.9;NOTES TO CHAPTER 1;29
9;Chapter 2. Theories of Economic Segmentation The;30
9.1;NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS;30
9.2;MARXISM;31
9.3;INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS;32
9.4;LABOR ECONOMICS;33
9.5;THE SOCIOLOGY OF LABOR MARKETS;35
9.6;THE DUAL ECONOMY MODEL;37
9.7;A SYMPATHETIC CRITIQUE OF THE DUAL ECONOMY MODEL;48
9.8;CONCLUSIONS;55
9.9;NOTES TO CHAPTER 2;57
10;Chapter 3. A Resource Theory of Organizational Structure;59
10.1;A REVISED HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE;60
10.2;A RESOURCE APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE;65
10.3;EXPLORING ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES;70
10.4;WHAT WE EXPECT TO FIND;73
10.5;CONCLUSIONS;78
10.6;NOTES TO CHAPTER 3;79
11;Chapter 4. Industry and Enterprise Data and Measures;81
11.1;INTRODUCTION;81
11.2;INDUSTRY DATA;84
11.3;COMPANY DATA;105
11.4;INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL VARIABLES EXTRACTED FROM THE WISCONSIN SURVEY AND THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY;112
11.5;THE SAMPLE TO BE STUDIED;115
11.6;CONCLUSIONS: THE TASK OF COLLECTING COMPANY AND INDUSTRY DATA;117
11.7;NOTES TO CHAPTER 4;118
12;Chapter 5. Distribution of Poverty, Union Membership, Class Positions, and Race and Gender Groups across Economic Sectors;121
12.1;POVERTY;121
12.2;UNION MEMBERSHIP;123
12.3;CLASS POSITIONS;124
12.4;RACE;126
12.5;GENDER;128
12.6;CONCLUSIONS;128
12.7;NOTES TO CHAPTER 5;129
13;Chapter 6. Enterprise- and Industry-Level Models of Employees' Earnings;132
13.1;INTRODUCTION;132
13.2;A SECTORAL INDUSTRY MODEL;133
13.3;A CONTINUOUS-VARIABLE INDUSTRY MODEL;135
13.4;APPLICATION OF INDUSTRY-LEVEL MODELS TO THE WISCONSIN SAMPLE AND THE RESTRICTED CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY SAMPLE;146
13.5;A SECTORAL COMPANY MODEL;149
13.6;A CONTINUOUS-VARIABLE COMPANY MODEL;151
13.7;COMPARISON OF COMPANY- AND INDUSTRY: LEVEL RESULTS;158
13.8;CONCLUSIONS;163
13.9;NOTES TO CHAPTER 6;165
14;Chapter 7. Economic Structure and the Individual Earnings Attainment Process;169
14.1;INTRODUCTION;169
14.2;EVALUATION OF THE INDUSTRY-LEVEL MODEL;171
14.3;EVALUATION OF THE COMPANY-LEVEL MODEL;178
14.4;SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AS DETERMINANTS OF INDIVIDUAL EARNINGS;181
14.5;CONCLUSIONS;184
14.6;NOTES TO CHAPTER 7;186
15;Chapter 8. Earnings Attainment across Economic Sectors, Classes, and Race and Gender Groups;188
15.1;EARNINGS RETURNS TO EDUCATION WITHIN ECONOMIC SECTORS;189
15.2;CLASS INEQUALITY WITHIN ECONOMIC SECTORS;196
15.3;ECONOMIC STRUCTURE FOR WHOM?;197
15.4;CONCLUSIONS;203
15.5;NOTES TO CHAPTER 8;205
16;Chapter 9. Conclusions;207
16.1;SUMMARY OF FINDINGS;207
16.2;THE STUDY OF LABOR FORCE OUTCOMES AND CORPORATE STRUCTURE;214
16.3;POLICY CONSIDERATIONS;217
17;Appendix A: Industry Variables;219
18;Appendix B: Company Variables;228
19;Appendix C: The Operationalization of ClassThe;231
20;Appendix D: Supplementary Tables;234
21;References;246
22;Index;256