1st Edition

Industries, Firms, and Jobs

By George Farkas Copyright 1988
383 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

What are the links among industrial structure, segmentation, the internal structure of firms, job characteristics, technology, productivity, labor markets, and product markets? The answers, posited by a distinguished group of sociologists and economists, have gained resonance as the field of economic sociology has grown. In this expanded edition, the editors and their economist colleague, Kevin... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: Work Structures and Markets; II: Economic Segmentation Reconsidered; 2: The Prospects for Economic Dualism; 3: Careers, Industries, and Occupations; 4: Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets; III: Industrial Structure And Markets; 5: Structural Effects on Wages; 6: Schooling and Capitalism; 7: Market Concentration and Structural Power as Sources of Industrial Productivity; IV: Firms and Internal Labor Markets; 8: The Economics and Sociology of Organization; 9: The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysis; 10: Income Determination in Three Internal Labor Markets; V: The Future of Work; 11: Good Jobs and Bad Management: How New Problems Evoke Old Solutions in High-Tech Settings; 12: Dueling Sectors: The Role of Service Industries in the Earnings Process of the Dual Economy; 13: The Impact of Technology on Work Organization and Work Outcomes; VI: Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Study of Industries, Firms, and Jobs; 14: Economic and Sociological Views of Industries, Firms, and Jobs

Biography

George Farkas