Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
Markets and Institutions
Published on 1. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
768 pages
978-0-674-01140-3 (ISBN)
Description
In twenty-three original essays this book reviews the course of labor economics over the more than two centuries since the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. It fully examines the contending theories, changing environmental contexts, evolving issues, and varied policies affecting labor's participation in the economy.
While the intellectual framework of the book looks partly to the past--explaining the labor factor in classical and neoclassical systems--its emphasis is on contemporary problems that will figure prominently in future developments, such as the operation of internal labor markets, dispute resolution, concession bargaining, equal employment opportunity, and individual labor contracting.
While the intellectual framework of the book looks partly to the past--explaining the labor factor in classical and neoclassical systems--its emphasis is on contemporary problems that will figure prominently in future developments, such as the operation of internal labor markets, dispute resolution, concession bargaining, equal employment opportunity, and individual labor contracting.
Reviews / Votes
A meaty, thought-provoking, rewarding collection...of essays by top labor relations specialists surveying the development and current state of labor economics and industrial relations theory and practice. -- Markley Roberts * Monthly Labor Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 line illustrations, 38 tables
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-01140-3 (9780674011403)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
08/2003
Harvard University Press
€57.08
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Persons
Clark Kerr was President Emeritus and former Chancellor and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the former Chair of the Carnegie Commission (and later Council) on Higher Education, and the former Chair and Director of the National Commission on Strengthening Presidential Leadership under the auspices of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Paul D. Staudohar is Professor of Business Administration at California State University at Hayward.
Content
Introduction - labour in the course of the development of economic thought, Clark Kerr; Part 1 The provinces of labour economics: the labour factor within the classical and neoclassical systems of economic analysis, George H. Hildebrand; Americanizing the labour problem - the Wisconsin School, Jack Barbash; the social economics revisionists - the "Real World" study of labour markets and institutions, Clark Kerr; human capital - a review, Jacob Mincer. Part 2 A central dispute - determinateness vs indeterminateness: the evolution of thought on the competitive nature of labour markets, Bruce E. Kaufman; wage differentials and minimum-wage effects, Richard A. Lester; modelling Third World labour markets, Lloyd G. Reynolds; occupational wage differentials, Albert E. Rees. Part 3 Other great issues: on labour's bargaining disadvantage, Melvin W. Reder; two (or three) ways of thinking about unemployment, Robert M. Solow; American exceptionalism in the labour market - union-nonunion differentials in the United States and other countries, Richard B. Freeman. Part 4 Internal labour markets - a new exploration: internal labour markets - theory and change, Paul S. Osterman; managing the workplace - from markets to manors, and beyond, Sanford M. Jacoby; organizations and human resources - internal and external markets, John T. Dunlop; explicit individual contracting in the labour market, David Lewin. Part 5 The new industrial state - what form is it taking?: countervailing power - memoir and modern reality, John Kenneth Galbraith; a decade of concession bargaining, Daniel J.B. Mitchell; changing patterns in dispute resolution, Peter Feuille; unions - a re-orientation to survive, Michael J. Piore. Part 6 Labour economics in a changing world: productivity - data and determinants, Edward F. Denison; the spectre of affirmative action, Jonathan S. Leonard; organizations and learning systems for a high-wage economy, Ray Marshall; principles for a post-new deal employment policy, Thomas A. Kochan.