1st Edition

Beyond Industrial Dualism Market And Job Segmentation In The New Economy

By Thierry J. Noyelle Copyright 1987
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book attempts to identify some principal dimensions of the process of market and job restructuring by means of case studies of service companies. It places special emphasis on the job restructuring issue and, in particular, on the decline of internal labor markets in the U.S. economy.

Foreword -- Introduction -- The Rise of the New Economy and the Dismantling of Internal Labor Markets -- Retailing: The Case of R. H. Macy & Co. -- Utilities: The Case of New York Telephone -- Finance: The Case of a Large Insurance Firm -- Market and Job Segmentation in the New Economy -- Policy Implications

Biography

Thierry J. Noyelle is senior research scholar, Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University. He is the author of Business Services in World Markets (1987) and coauthor of several books, including Services/ The New Economy (1981), The Economic Transformation of American Cities (1984), and Technology and Employment (1986).