Sourcebook of Labor Markets

by Berg, Ivar E.; Kalleberg, Arne L.

• ISBN13: 9780306464539
• ISBN10: 0306464535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION	1	(26)
Emerging Labor Market Structures: Contexts and Correlates	3	(24)
Ivar Berg
Arne L. Kalleberg
II. EVOLVING MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES	27	(136)
Risk and the Labor Market: Societal Past as Economic Prologue	31	(30)
Sanford M. Jacoby
The U.S. Labor Movement: Toward a Sociology of Labor Revitalization	61	(22)
Daniel B. Cornfield
Bill Fletcher
Can the U.S. Industrial Relations System Be Transformed?: The Role of Ideas, Reform Efforts, and Social Crisis	83	(18)
Thomas A. Kochan
The Next Long Swing: Spatialization, Technocratic Control, and the Restructuring of Work at the Turn of the Century	101	(34)
Michael Wallace
David Brady
Labor Markets and Economic Transformation in Postcommunist Europe	135	(28)
Robert M. Jenkins
III. EVOLVING EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND WORK STRUCTURES	163	(190)
Employment Relations and Work Structures in the United States: From Huddersfield to ``Industrial Democracy'' and Back	165	(22)
Ivar Berg
Evolving Employment Relations in the United States	187	(20)
Arne L. Kalleberg
Assessing the Decline of Internal Labor Markets	207	(40)
Peter Cappelli
The Loose Coupling of Jobs: The Subcontracting of Everyone?	247	(24)
Nancy DiTomaso
High-Performance Work Systems and Labor Market Structures	271	(24)
Eileen Appelbaum
Peter Berg
Careers and Employment Relations	295	(24)
Aage B. Srensen
Age and the Labor Market: Trends in Employment Security and Employment Institutions	319	(34)
William P. Bridges
IV. EVOLVING PATTERNS OF STRATIFICATION IN THE UNITED STATES	353	(178)
Trends in Income Inequality in the United States	355	(32)
Francois Nielsen
Arthur S. Alderson
Did Job Quality Deteriorate in the 1980s and 1990s?	387	(22)
John Schmitt
Seven Reasons for Skepticism about the Technology Story of U.S. Wage Inequality	409	(20)
Jared Bernstein
Lawrence Mishel
Changing Labor Markets and the U.S. Workforce Development System	429	(20)
Thomas Bailey
What Happened to Middle Management?	449	(18)
Marshall W. Meyer
Social Networks, Job Changes, and Recruitment	467	(36)
Peter V. Marsden
Elizabeth H. Gorman
Regional Labor Markets	503	(28)
John J. Beggs
Wayne J. Villemez
V. EVOLVING PUBLIC POLICIES: STRUCTURE OF OPPORTUNITY AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES	531	(172)
Evolving Patterns of Sex Segregation	535	(16)
Jerry A. Jacobs
The Sex Gap in Pay and Comparable Worth: An Update	551	(16)
Paula England
Jennifer Thompson
Carolyn Aman
Employment Discrimination and Its Remedies	567	(34)
Barbara F. Reskin
Hiring in Urban Labor Markets: Shifting Labor Demands, Persistent Racial Differences	601	(44)
Philip Moss
Chris Tilly
Race and Labor Market Segmentation	645	(24)
Robert L. Kaufman
Immigration and Labor Markets in the United States	669	(34)
Frank D. Bean
Susan Gonzalez-Baker
Randy Capps
VI. AFTERWORD	703	(20)
Evolving Labor Markets: Conclusions and Implications	707	(16)
Ivar Berg
Arne L. Kalleberg
Author Index	723	(12)
Subject Index	735