Industries, Firms, and Jobs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Work Structures and Markets

      • Arne L. Kalleberg, Ivar Berg

      Pages 3-17

3. Economic Segmentation Reconsidered

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-22

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   2. The Prospects for Economic Dualism

      • Robert T. Averitt

      Pages 23-42

   3. Careers, Industries, and Occupations

      • Jerry A. Jacobs, Ronald L. Breiger

      Pages 43-63

   4. Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets

      • Kevin Lang, William T. Dickens

      Pages 65-88

4. Industrial Structure and Markets

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-92

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   2. Structural Effects on Wages

      • George Farkas, Paula England, Margaret Barton

      Pages 93-112

   3. Schooling and Capitalism

      • E. M. Beck, Glenna S. Colclough

      Pages 113-139

   4. Market Concentration and Structural Power as Sources of Industrial Productivity

      • Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

      Pages 141-154

5. Firms and Internal Labor Markets

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-157

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   2. The Economics and Sociology of Organization

      • Oliver E. Williamson

      Pages 159-185

   3. The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysis

      • Mark Granovetter

      Pages 187-216

   4. Income Determination in Three Internal Labor Markets

      • Nancy Ditomaso

      Pages 217-242

6. The Future of Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-246

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   2. Good Jobs and Bad Management

      • Randy Hodson

      Pages 247-279

   3. Dueling Sectors

      • Leann Tigges

      Pages 281-301

   4. The Impact of Technology on Work Organization and Work Outcomes

      • William Form, Robert L. Kaufman, Toby L. Parcel, Michael Wallace

      Pages 303-328

7. Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Study of Industries, Firms, and Jobs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329

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   2. Economic and Sociological Views of Industries, Firms, and Jobs

      • Paula England, George Farkas

      Pages 331-346

This book is a welcome reassertion of an old tradition of interdisdplinary research. That tradition has tended to atrophy in the last decade, largely because of an enormous expansion of the domain of neoc1assical economics. The expansion has fed on two sdentific developments: first, human capital theory; second, contract theory. Both developments have taken phenomena critical to the operation of the economy but previously understood in terms of categories separate and distinct from those with which economists generally work and sought to apply the same analytical techniques that we use to understand other economic problems. Human capital theory has applied conventional techniques to questions of labor supply. It began this endeavor with the supply of trained labor and then expanded to a general theory of labor supply by broadening the analysis to the allocation of time over the individual's life, the interdependendes of supply decisions within the family, and finally to the formation of the family itself. Similarly, contract theory has moved from a theory that explains the existence of c10sed economic institutions to a theory of their formation and internaioperation. The hallmark of both of these developments is the extension and applica­ tion of analytical techniques based on purposive maximization under con­ traints and the interaction of individual decision makers through a com­ petitive market or its analogue.

• capital
• capitalism
• economics
• economy
• Institution
• interaction
• labor market
• management
• Nation
• occupations
• organization
• organizations
• productivity
• sociology
• technology

• School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

  George Farkas, Paula England

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