Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes [Paperback]

A distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the field at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. Following what the editors describe as an `evolutionist' approach to the study of labor markets, the chapters address issues of continuity and discontinuity in a wide range of topics including: markets and institutional structures; employment relations and work structures; patterns of stratification in the United States; and public policies, opportunity structures, and economic outcomes.A distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the field at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. Following what the editors describe as an `evolutionist' approach to the study of labor markets, the chapters address issues of continuity and discontinuity in a wide range of topics including: markets and institutional structures; employment relations and work structures; patterns of stratification in the United States; and public policies, opportunity structures, and economic outcomes.I: Introduction. 1. Evolving Labor Market Structures: Key Developments, 1975-2000; I. Berg, A.L. Kalleberg. II: Evolving Markets and Institutional Structures. 2. Risk and the Labor Market: Societal Past as Economic Prologue; S.M. Jacoby. 3. The U.S. Labor Movement: Toward a Sociology of Labor Revitalization; D.B. Cornfield, W. Fletcher. 4. Can the U.S. Industrial Relations System be Transformed? The Role of Ideas, Reform Efforts, and Social Crisis; T.A. Kochan. 5. The Next Long Swing: Spatialization, Technocratic Control, and the Restructuring of Work at the Turn of the Century; M. Wallace, D. Brady. 6. Labor Markets and Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Europe; R. Jenkins. III: Evolving Employment Relations and Work Structures. 7. Employment Relations and Work Structures and the Return to Huddersfield; I. Berg. 8. Evolving Employment Relations lc)