Work Under Capitalism

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Dedication
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Photo Credits
1 How to Work Things Out
Lessons from a Life of Hard Work
Getting to Work
Assaying the Competition
The Trouble(s) with Neoclassical Accounts
The Work Before Us
2 Worlds of Work
What Works?
Labor Markets
Occupations
Professions
Varieties of Work
Elsewhere
3 Cotton, Coal, and Clinics
Contrasting Trajectories of Industrial Change
Cotton Textiles
Coal Mining
Health Care
Trends and Contrasts
4 An Analytical Frame
What’s the Problem?
Units of Work Relationships
Characteristics of Work and Causes of Variation
5 Employers at Work
The Worker-Employer Pair
Employer Objectives
Constraints on Employers
Satisficing and Bargaining
“Stupidity” and Competition
6 Workers and Other Actors
Work to Live, or Live to Work?
Worker Behavior
Bounding the Firm, Bounding the Worker
Workers and Firms in Networks
Other Actors: The Family
Other Actors: The State
Curtain Call for the Actors
7 How Work Has Changed, How Work Changes
Changing Work
Capitalism and the Rise of Labor Markets
American Proletarianization
Changes Large and Small
Technological Change
Divisions of Labor
8 Varied Work, Segmented Work
A Good Job Is Hard to Define
The State of the Art in Measuring Job Quality
Mapping Covariation in Work Contracts: Contracting and Autonomy
Mapping Labor Markets and Their Relatives
Labor Market Segmentation
Logics of Segmentation
9 Inequality at Work: Hiring
Connections Among Matching, Incentive, and Mobility
Matching Workers and Jobs
Productivity in Matching
Preferences in Matching
Networks in Matching
Bargaining and Inertia in Matching
Mixing and Matching
10 Inequality at Work: Wages and Promotion
Beyond Human Capital Theory
Incentive Systems
Levels of Compensation
Inducing Work Effort
A Case Example: Growing Wage Inequality in the United States
Promotion and Mobility
The End of Internal Labor Markets?
11 Contention at Work
How and Why Workers Contend
History, Culture, and Repertoires of Contention
The Organization of Work as Basis and Object of Contention
Work and Contention in the United States
12 Conclusions
References
Index