Industry And Inequality

Author : Linda M. Lobao
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791404757

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Locality and Inequality by Linda M. Lobao Pdf

This book explores how the recent restructuring of farming and industry has affected economic and social equality in the United States. The author explains how the farm sector has undergone a dramatic restructuring with profound effects. Moderate-size family farms, the mainstay of American agriculture, have declined during the postwar period and are now under severe financial stress. Large-scale industrialized farms -- "the factories in the field," often run by corporations -- continue to expand their share of agricultural sales while small farms operated on a part-time basis appear to be replacing traditional family farming. Lobao shows that public concern about farm restructuring is indeed warranted and that the nation now appears to be losing its most beneficial farms as well as industries. While local and regional social and economic forces and state policy can be brought to bear on these trends, Lobao particulary focuses on how community empowerment and broad-based political coalitions offer the most promise for fundamental change.

Author : Claus Offe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 031241580X

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Industry and Inequality by Claus Offe Pdf

Author : Joel I. Nelson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803973336

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Post-Industrial Capitalism by Joel I. Nelson Pdf

An alternative framework for examining and explaining the widening economic and social stratification within United States society is provided in this book. Until now, two points of view - Marxist and industrialist - have dominated the discourse. Joel I Nelson offers a comprehensive explanation of inequality and locates its source in the transformation of capitalism, free market ideology and the evolution of US business.

Author : Mark Holmström
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521267455

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Industry and Inequality by Mark Holmström Pdf

This Book, Co-Published With Cambridge University Press, Breaks New Ground In The Field Of Industrial Anthroplogy. The Focus Of The Book Is On The Uneasy Relationship Between The Permanent (Organised Sector) Industrial Workers, Who Have The Protection Of The Factory Act And The Trade Unions, And The Temporary (Unorganised) Workers. The Author Questions Whether India Has A Dual Economy And Society In Which These Two Groups Of Workers Act As Distinct Classes With Opposed Interests. Dr Holmstrom Uses A Wide Range Of Material, From The Opinions And Life Stories Of Workers To Accounts Of Recent Union Movements In The `Unorganised Sector`, And Contributes Critically To The Debate On `Dualism` And Its Underlying Assumptions.

Author : Ylva Baeckström
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000543964

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Gender and Finance by Ylva Baeckström Pdf

This book examines the world of finance and the role of gender within it. It looks at the financial services industry, arguably the most powerful and remunerative sector that exists, and shows how it was created by men for men. The author explains how historically women were excluded, how minimal progress has been made, and outlines how the sector still needs to change to function effectively in a modern, equal opportunities world. Addressing gender inequality in financial services is of utmost urgency and importance because of the extent to which it affects women in all stages of life. Women’s exclusion in financial services is also mirrored by how men have been excluded from parenting through a similar set of societal expectations, government legislation and corporate policies. The author maintains that to succeed, we need to address both financial services and parenting. To do so we need regulatory support. Because of its power and dominance, the financial services industry has the opportunity to lead this change and to champion gender equal practices. These practices are economically beneficial to all participants, not only female employees and consumers. We all need these benefits as we rebuild our economies following the COVID-19 pandemic. The book makes an important contribution to the critical and increasing awareness of gender concerns. It presents insights drawn from original research and data about gender biases. The book is an essential secondary text for a range of university courses, including economics, finance and accounting, business studies and gender related courses, as well as MBAs and Executive Education programmes that focus on gender in business. It is also a must read for policy makers, managers in financial services institutions and any other businesses that seek to attract the growing market of female consumers, employees and business leaders.

Author : James K. Galbraith,Maureen Berner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521009936

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Inequality and Industrial Change by James K. Galbraith,Maureen Berner Pdf

The world knows that there is a global crisis of inequality in pay. But what caused it? Where is it more and where less severe? What can be done? This book deploys new techniques and a new global data set to advance striking answers to these questions, answers that have eluded even the largest international research institutions such as the OECD and the World Bank. Chapters trace the U.S. wage structure back to 1920, the relationship of inequality and unemployment in Europe, and the relationships of inequality to economic growth, liberalization, financial crisis, state violence and industrial policy in more than fifty developing countries.

Author : Jeremy Greenwood
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0844770930

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The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Greenwood Pdf

In this text the author argues that rapid technological change, sluggish real wage growth, and widening inequality have characterized earlier periods of economic growth of revolutionary new technologies.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264900226

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The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality Policy Lessons from a Large Scale Cross-Country Study by OECD Pdf

Even though firms play a key role in shaping wages, wage inequality and the gender wage gap, firms have so far only featured to a limited extent in the policy debates around these issues. The evidence in this volume shows that around one third of overall wage inequality can be explained by gaps in pay between firms rather than differences in the level and returns to workers’ skills.

Author : Ata Can Bertay,Ljubica Dordevic,Can Sever
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781513546278

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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from Industry-Level Data by Ata Can Bertay,Ljubica Dordevic,Can Sever Pdf

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with typically higher female share in their employment relative to other industries. Specifically, we exploit within-country variation across industries to test whether those that typically employ more women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal effect of gender inequality on industry growth in value-added and labor productivity. Our findings show that gender inequality affects real economic outcomes.

Author : Andrew Hurley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807898789

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Environmental Inequalities by Andrew Hurley Pdf

By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America. Hurley's study focuses on the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was sacrificed, like a thousand other American places, to industrial priorities in the decades following World War II. Although this period witnessed the emergence of a powerful environmental crusade and a resilient quest for equality and social justice among blue-collar workers and African Americans, such efforts often conflicted with the needs of industry. To secure their own interests, manufacturers and affluent white suburbanites exploited divisions of race and class, and the poor frequently found themselves trapped in deteriorating neighborhoods and exposed to dangerous levels of industrial pollution. In telling the story of Gary, Hurley reveals liberal capitalism's difficulties in reconciling concerns about social justice and quality of life with the imperatives of economic growth. He also shows that the power to mold the urban landscape was intertwined with the ability to govern social relations.

Author : Mar Hicks
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262535182

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Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks Pdf

This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.

Author : Lance Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108494632

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Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump by Lance Taylor Pdf

An innovative approach to measuring inequality providing the first full integration of distributional and macro level data for the US.

Author : Ms. Era Dabla-Norris,Ms. Kalpana Kochhar,Mrs. Nujin Suphaphiphat,Mr. Frantisek Ricka,Evridiki Tsounta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513547435

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Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality by Ms. Era Dabla-Norris,Ms. Kalpana Kochhar,Mrs. Nujin Suphaphiphat,Mr. Frantisek Ricka,Evridiki Tsounta Pdf

This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.

Author : Jonathan P. Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319569581

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Technology and Inequality by Jonathan P. Allen Pdf

This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the role of technology in inequality, the book will have a unifying theme of tracing wealth creation and wealth capture in the technology sector, and relating specific practices—what technology companies actually do—to larger shifts in wealth and power. A clear conceptual framework will be used to analyze key industry case studies: search engines, social media, and the ‘sharing’ economy.

Author : Gordon Marshall
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019359384

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Repositioning Class by Gordon Marshall Pdf

This book demonstrates that social class is as important now to the understanding of 20th century industrial societies as it was in the first years of the century.