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 Thought series 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 Work examines 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.
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 Firms Environment 227(4) David I. Levine Laura DAndrea 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 Mens 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 Womens Work: The Progress of Two Decades 319(4) Lourdes Beneria Womens 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. OBoyle 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
