Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes / Edition 1

by Ivar Berg, Arne L. Kalleberg

Overview

A distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the field at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. Following what the editors describe as an ‘evolutionist' approach to the study of labor markets, the chapters address issues of continuity and discontinuity in a wide range of topics including: markets and institutional structures; employment relations and work structures; patterns of stratification in the United States; and public policies, opportunity structures, and economic outcomes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306464539
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/2001
Series:	Springer Studies in Work and Industry
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	766
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.08(d)

Table of Contents

1. Emerging Labor Market Structures: Contexts and Correlates.- 2. Risk and the Labor Market: Societal Past as Economic Prologue.- 3. The U.S. Labor Movement: Toward a Sociology of Labor Revitalization.- 4. Can the U.S. Industrial Relations System Be Transformed?: The Role of Ideas, Reform Efforts, and Social Crisis.- 5. The Next Long Swing: Spatialization, Technocratic Control, and the Restructuring of Work at the Turn of the Century.- 6. Labor Markets and Economic Transformation in Postcommunist Europe.- 7. Employment Relations and Work Structures in the United States: From Huddersfield to “Industrial Democracy” and Back.- 8. Evolving Employment Relations in the United States.- 9. Assessing the Decline of Internal Labor Markets.- 10. The Loose Coupling of Jobs: The Subcontracting of Everyone?.- 11. High-Performance Work Systems and Labor Market Structures.- 12. Careers and Employment Relations.- 13. Age and the Labor Market: Trends in Employment Security and Employment Institutions.- 14. Trends in Income Inequality in the United States.- 15. Did Job Quality Deteriorate in the 1980s and 1990s?.- 16. Seven Reasons for Skepticism about the Technology Story of U.S. Wage Inequality.- 17. Changing Labor Markets and the U.S. Workforce Development System.- 18. What Happened to Middle Management?.- 19. Social Networks, Job Changes, and Recruitment.- 20. Regional Labor Markets.- 21. Evolving Patterns of Sex Segregation.- 22. The Sex Gap in Pay and Comparable Worth: An Update.- 23. Employment Discrimination and Its Remedies.- 24. Hiring in Urban Labor Markets: Shifting Labor Demands, Persistent Racial Differences.- 25. Race and Labor Market Segmentation.- 26 Immigration and Labor Markets in the United States.- 27. Evolving Labor Markets: Conclusions and Implications.- AuthorInde.- Subject Inde.

Editorial Reviews

‘Recommended for graduate, research, and professional collection.'
Choice 39:6 (2002)

From the Publisher

Berg (labor and industrial relations, Michigan State U.) and Kalleberg (sociology, The Ohio State U.) present 27 contributions by sociologists from various universities that address issues such as continuing declines in unions; doubts about the continuing integrity of internal labor markets; growing price competition and tempering of "managed competition"; slowdowns in the expansion of huge, non-price-driven employment settings in favor of smaller, somewhat less bureaucratic firms, along with large firms that are now more vulnerable to price competition; and continuing discrimination based on age, gender, ethnicity, and race. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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