The Changing Nature of Work

by Ackerman, Frank; Goodwin, Neva R.; Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute

• ISBN13: 9781559636650
• ISBN10: 1559636653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

Human impacts on the environment are largely driven by economic forces. If a more ecologically sustainable world is to be achieved, significant changes must be made to the current growth- and consumption-dependent economic system. The Frontier Issues in Economic Thoughtseries was designed to assist the growing number of economists and others who are responding to the need for new thinking about economics in the face of environmental and social forces that are reshaping the world.The Changing Nature of Workexamines the causes and effects of the rapid transformation of the world of work. It provides concise summaries of the key writings on work and workplace issues, extending the frontiers of labor economics to include the often overlooked social and psychological dimensions of work.The book begins with a foreword by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich that presents labor in contemporary perspective. An introductory overview provides a brief history of the changing nature of work and situates current problems in the context of longer-term developments. Following that are eight topical sections that feature three- to five-page summaries for each of the ten to twelve most important articles or book chapters on a subject.Sections cover.new directions in labor economics social and psychological dimensions of work and unemployment globalization and labor new technologies and organizational change flexibility and internal labor markets new patterns of industrial relations family, gender, paid and unpaid work difference and diversity in the workplaceThe book provides a roadmap for scholars on the vast and diverse literature concerning labor issues, and affords students a quick overview of that rapidly changing field. It is an important contribution to the series and is a valuable book for anyone interested in labor, as well as for students and scholars of labor economics, industrial sociology, industrial relations, social psychology, and their respective disciplines.

Table of Contents

Authors of Original Articles	xvii	(6)
Foreword	xxiii	(4)
Robert B. Reich
Acknowledgments	xxvii	(2)
Volume Introduction	xxix
Neva R. Goodwin
PART I The History of Work	1	(14)
Frank Ackerman
PART II New Directions in Labor Economics	15	(46)
Overview Essay	15	(10)
Frank Ackerman
An Introduction to the Wage Curve	25	(4)
David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models	29	(3)
Samuel S. Bowles
Industrial Relations and Productivity Growth: A Comparative Perspective	32	(3)
Robert A. Buchele
Jens Christiansen
Radical Political Economy and the Economics of Labor Markets	35	(5)
James Rebitzer
Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence	40	(3)
William T. Dickens
Kevin Lang
Supervision and High Wages as Competing Incentives: A Basis for Labor Segmentation Theory	43	(4)
Robert W. Drago
Richard Perlman
The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment	47	(3)
George A. Akerlof
Janet Yellen
The Exit-Voice Tradeoff in the Labor Market: Unionism, Job Tenure, Quits, and Separations	50	(3)
Richard B. Freeman
An Alternative Approach to Labor Markets	53	(3)
David Marsden
An Analytical Frame	56	(5)
Chris Tilly
Charles Tilly
PART III Globalization and Labor	61	(52)
Overview Essay	61	(8)
Frank Ackerman
How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers	69	(4)
Adrian Wood
International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s: Giant Sucking Sound or Small Hiccup?	73	(3)
Robert Z. Lawrence
Matthew Slaughter
International Trade and the Performance of U.S. Labor Markets	76	(4)
Dale Belman
Thea M. Lee
Skills Mismatch or Globalization?	80	(4)
David Gordon
The Causes and Consequences of Changing Earnings Inequality: W(h)ither the Debate?	84	(4)
David G. Blanchflower
Matthew Slaughter
Consequences of Trade for Labor Markets and the Employment Relationship	88	(3)
Dani Rodrik
The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins	91	(3)
James R. Lincoln
Yoshifumi Nakata
Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry	94	(4)
Evelyn Blumenberg
Paul Ong
Gender and the Global Economy	98	(3)
Lourdes Beneria
The Politics and Economics of Global Employment: A Perspective from Latin America	101	(4)
Hernando Gomez-Buendia
Globalization and Labor Standards: A Review of Issues	105	(4)
Eddy Lee
Policy Options for the North	109	(4)
Adrian Wood
PART IV New Technologies and Work Organization	113	(58)
Overview Essay	113	(8)
Laurie Dougherty
Sociotechnical Organizational Change: Technological and Organizational Coevolution	121	(4)
John A. Mathews
Alternative Models of Production	125	(4)
Eileen Appelbaum
Rosemary Batt
Integrating Technology and Human Resources for High-Performance Manufacturing: Evidence from the International Auto Industry	129	(4)
John Paul MacDuffie
John F. Krafcik
Toward Post-Lean Production	133	(3)
Christian Berggren
Japanese Work Organization in Mexico	136	(4)
Harley Shaiken
Harry Browne
The Effect of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines	140	(3)
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw
Giovanna Prennushi
The Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated Organization and The Information Panopticon	143	(3)
Shoshana Zuboff
The End of Skill?	146	(3)
Stanley Aronowitz
William DeFazio
The Transformation of Work Revisited: The Limits of Flexibility in American Manufacturing	149	(4)
Steven Vallas
John Beck
Computer Rationalization and the Transformation of Work: Lessons from the Insurance Industry	153	(4)
Eileen Appelbaum
Peter Albin
Effects of Technological Change: The Quality of Employment	157	(4)
Heidi Hartmann
Robert E. Kraut
Louise A. Tilly
Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?	161	(3)
David Autor
Lawrence Katz
Alan Krueger
The Returns to Computer Use Revisited: Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?	164	(3)
John E. DiNardo
John-Steffen Pischke
Technology, Power, and the Social Organization of Work: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Skilling and Deskilling	167	(4)
Stephen R. Barley
PART V Restructuring Employment: Flexibility versus Security	171	(44)
Overview Essay	171	(6)
Laurie Dougherty
Employment and Productivity in Industrialized Economies	177	(4)
Eileen Appelbaum
Ronald Schettkat
Nonstandard Work, Substandard Jobs: Flexible Work Arrangements in the United States	181	(4)
Arne L. Kalleberg et al.
Restructuring the Employment Relationship: The Growth of Market-Mediated Work Arrangements	185	(4)
Katharine G. Abraham
Rethinking Employment	189	(3)
Peter Cappelli
Internal Labor Markets: Theory and Change	192	(3)
Paul S. Osterman
Toward a New Labor Market Segmentation	195	(4)
Thierry J. Noyelle
World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics, and Effects of the Informal Economy	199	(3)
Manuel Castells
Alejandro Portes
Informalization at the Core: Hispanic Women, Home-Based Work, and the Advanced Capitalist State	202	(3)
M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Anna M. Garcia
Reevaluating Union Policy Toward White-Collar Home-Based Work	205	(3)
Kathleen E. Christensen
Sustainable Flexibility: A Prospective Study on Work, Family, and Society in the Information Age	208	(7)
Martin Carnoy
Manuel Castells
PART VI Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations	215	(44)
Overview Essay	215	(9)
Kevin Gallagher
International Difference in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces	224	(3)
Francine Blau
Participation, Productivity, and the Firm's Environment	227	(4)
David I. Levine
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Conclusion: The Transformation of Industrial Relations? A Cross-National Review of the Evidence	231	(3)
Richard M. Locke
Thomas Kochan
Microchips and Macroharvests: Labor-Management Relations in Agriculture	234	(4)
Robert J. Thomas
Alternative Forms of Work Organization Under Programmable Automation	238	(3)
Maryellen R. Kelley
A Strategy for Labor	241	(3)
Joel E. Rogers
An Economic Analysis of Works Councils	245	(3)
Richard B. Freeman
Edward Lazear
Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet?	248	(4)
John P. Bonin
Derek C. Jones
Louis Putterman
Labor-Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North Central Italy: An Empirical Comparison	252	(3)
Will Bartlett
John Cable
Saul Estrin
Derek C. Jones
Stephen C. Smith
Financial Markets and the Political Structure of the Enterprise	255	(4)
Herbert Gintis
PART VII Difference and Diversity in the Workplace	259	(40)
Overview Essay	259	(10)
Laurie Dougherty
Queuing and Changing Occupational Composition	269	(4)
Barbara F. Reskin
Patricia A. Roos
Between the Toe and the Heel--Jobs and Emotional Labor and Gender, Status, and Feeling	273	(3)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Race, Class, and Occupational Mobility: Black and White Women in Service Work in the United States	276	(4)
Marilyn Power
Sam Rosenberg
Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder But Out on a Limb	280	(3)
Sharon M. Collins
What Went Wrong? The Erosion of Relative Earnings and Employment Among Young Black Men in the 1980s	283	(3)
John Bound
Richard B. Freeman
"Soft" Skills and Race: An Investigation of Black Men's Employment Problems	286	(4)
Philip Moss
Chris Tilly
Feminization of the Labor Force: The Effects of Long-Term Development and Structural Adjustment	290	(2)
Nilufer Cagatay
Sule Ozler
Engendering the Worlds of Labor: Women Workers, Labor Markets, and Production Politics in the South China Economic Miracle	292	(3)
Ching Kwan Lee
Notes on the Incorporation of Third World Women into Wage-Labor through Immigration and Offshore Production	295	(4)
Saskia Sassen-Koob
PART VIII The Household Economy and Caring Labor	299	(50)
Overview Essay	299	(13)
Neva Goodwin
Introduction to Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace	312	(4)
Francine Blau
Ronald Ehrenberg
Historical Changes in the Household Division of Labor	316	(3)
Jonathan I. Gershuny
John P. Robinson
Accounting for Women's Work: The Progress of Two Decades	319	(4)
Lourdes Beneria
Women's Employment or Return to "Family Values" in Central-Eastern Europe	323	(3)
Barbara Lobodzinska
Changing the Conditions of Work: Responding to Increasing Work Force Diversity and New Family Patterns	326	(3)
Lotte Bailyn
The Third Shift	329	(4)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Overwork in the Household	333	(3)
Juliet B. Schor
The Triangle of the Human Economy--Household, Cultivation, Industrial Production: An Attempt at Making Visible the Human Economy in Toto	336	(3)
Hilkka Pietila
Global Development and Personal Dependency: The High Cost of Doing Well	339	(2)
Allan R. Meyers
Holding Hands at Midnight: The Paradox of Caring Labor	341	(4)
Nancy Folbre
Children as Public Goods	345	(4)
Nancy Folbre
PART IX Human Values in Work	349	(44)
Overview Essay	349	(12)
Neva Goodwin
Learning at Work: Beyond Human Capital	361	(4)
Robert Lane
On Work and Alienation	365	(3)
Kai Erikson
Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity	368	(3)
William Julius Wilson
Unhappiness and Unemployment	371	(2)
Andrew Clark
Andrew J. Oswald
Social Psychology, Unemployment, and Macroeconomics	373	(3)
William A. Darity, Jr.
Arthur Goldsmith
The Need for Work as Such: Self-Expression and Belonging	376	(3)
Edward J. O'Boyle
Shifting Perspectives: The Decoupling of Work and Money	379	(3)
Robert J. Wuthnow
Position in the Class Structure and Psychological Functioning in the United States, Japan, and Poland	382	(3)
Melvin L. Kohn et al.
Dignity in the Workplace Under Participative Management: Alienation and Freedom Revisited	385	(3)
Randy D. Hodson
Work, Labor, and Action: Work Experience in a System of Flexible Production	388	(5)
Michael J. Piore
Subject Index	393	(22)
Name Index	415