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Volume 4: The Changing Nature of Work

Edited by: Ackerman, Frank; Goodwin, Neva R.; Dougherty, Laurie; Gallagher, Kevin

Series Editor: Neva R. Goodwin

Published by: Island Press, Washington, DC 1998

ISBN: 1-55963-665-3

  Authors of Original Articles
  Foreword for Volume 4
  Acknowledgments
  Volume Introduction

PART I
The History of Work

  The History of Work

PART II
New Directions in Labor Economics

  Overview Essay
  An Introduction to the Wage Curve
  The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models
  Industrial Relations and Productivity Growth: A Comparative Perspective
  Radical Political Economy and the Economics of Labor Markets
  Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence
  Supervision and High Wages as Competing Incentives: A Basis for Labor Segmentation Theory
  The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment
  The Exit-Voice Tradeoff in the Labor Market: Unionism, Job Tenure, Quits, and Separations
   An Alternative Approach to Labor Markets
  An Analytical Frame

PART III
Globalization and Labor

  Overview Essay
  How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers
  International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s: Giant Sucking Sound or Small Hiccup?
  International Trade and the Performance of U.S. Labor Markets
  Skills Mismatch or Globalization?
  The Causes and Consequences of Changing Earnings Inequality: W(h)ither the Debate?
  Consequences of Trade for Labor Markets and the Employment Relationship
  The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins
  Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry
   Gender and the Global Economy
  The Politics and Economics of Global Employment: A Perspective from Latin America
  Globalization and Labor Standards: A Review of Issues
  Policy Options for the North

PART IV
New Technologies and Work Organization

  Overview Essay
  Sociotechnical Organizational Change: Technological and Organizational Coevolution
  Alternative Models of Production
  Integrating Technology and Human Resources for High-Performance Manufacturing: Evidence from the International Auto Industry
  Toward Post-Lean Production
  Japanese Work Organization in Mexico
  The Effect of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines
  The Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated Organization
  The Information Panopticon
   The End of Skill?
  The Transformation of Work Revisited: The Limits of Flexibility in American Manufacturing
  Computer Rationalization and the Transformation of Work: Lessons from the Insurance Industry
  Effects of Technological Change: The Quality of Employment
  Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
  The Returns to Computer Use Revisited: Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?
  Technology, Power, and the Social Organization of Work: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Skilling and Deskilling

PART V
Restructuring Employment: Flexibility versus Security

  Overview Essay
  Employment and Productivity in Industrialized Economies
  Nonstandard Work, Substandard Jobs: Flexible Work Arrangements in the United States
  Restructuring the Employment Relationship: The Growth of Market-Mediated Work Arrangements
  Rethinking Employment
  Internal Labor Markets: Theory and Change
  Services and the New Economy: Toward a New Labor Market Segmentation
  World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics, and Effects of the Informal Economy
  Informalization at the Core: Hispanic Women, Home-Based Work, and the Advanced Capitalist State
   Reevaluating Union Policy toward White-Collar Home-Based Work
  Sustainable Flexibility: A Prospective Study on Work, Family, and Society in the Information Age

PART VI
Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations

  Overview Essay
  International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions Versus Market Forces
  Participation, Productivity, and the Firm’s Environment
  Conclusion: The Transformation of Industrial Relations? A Cross-National Review of the Evidence
  Microchips and Macroharvests: Labor-Management Relations in Agriculture
  Alternative Forms of Work Organization Under Programmable Automation
  A Strategy for Labor
  An Economic Analysis of Works Councils
  Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet?
   Labor-Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North Central Italy: An Empirical Comparison
  Financial Markets and the Political Structure of the Enterprise

PART VII
Difference and Diversity in the Workplace

  Overview Essay
  Between the Toe and the Heel: Jobs and Emotional Labor and Gender, Status, and Feeling
  Race, Class, and Occupational Mobility: Black and White Women in Service Work in the United States
  Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder But Out on a Limb
  What Went Wrong? The Erosion of Relative Earnings and Employment Among Young Black Men in the 1980s
  “Soft” Skills and Race: An Investigation of Black Men’s Employment Problems
  Feminization of the Labor Force: The Effects of Long-Term Development and Structural Adjustment
  Engendering the Worlds of Labor: Women Workers, Labor Markets, and Production Politics in the South China Economic Miracle
   Notes on the Incorporation of Third World Women into Wage-Labor Through Immigration and Off-Shore Production

PART VIII
The Household Economy And Caring Labor

  Overview Essay
  Introduction to Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace
  Historical Changes in the Household Division of Labor
  Accounting for Women’s Work: The Progress of Two Decades
  Women’s Employment or Return to “Family Values” in Central-Eastern Europe
  Changing the Conditions of Work: Responding to Increasing Work Force Diversity and New Family Patterns
  The Third Shift
  Overwork in the Household
  The Triangle of the Human Economy – Household, Cultivation, Industrial Production: An Attempt at Making Visible the Human Economy in Toto
  Global Development and Personal Dependency: The High Cost of Doing Well
  Holding Hands at Midnight: The Paradox of Caring Labor
  Children as Public Goods

PART IX
Human Values in Work

  Overview Essay
  Learning at Work: Beyond Human Capital
  On Work and Alienation
  Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity
  Unhappiness and Unemployment
  Social Psychology, Unemployment, and Macroeconomics
  The Need for Work as Such: Self-Expression and Belonging
  Shifting Perspectives: The Decoupling of Work and Money
  Position in the Class Structure and Psychological Functioning in the United States, Japan, and Poland
  Dignity in the Workplace Under Participative Management: Alienation and Freedom Revisited
  Work, Labor, and Action: Work Experience in a System of Flexible Production


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