Labor in the Era of Globalization

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Tables and Figures......Page 9
List of Authors and Editors......Page 15
Introduction: Labor in the Era of Globalization......Page 17
Part one: Political economy and labor market institutions......Page 29
Introduction......Page 31
The evolving nature of labor demand......Page 36
Norms, institutions, and the golden age......Page 40
1970–2005: institutional change at the end of the golden age......Page 48
Conclusions......Page 59
References......Page 61
Introduction......Page 67
Labor Historians and Revisionism......Page 72
Revisionism Revised......Page 75
The united states as just another liberal country: a comparative political economy analysis......Page 78
Liberal and coordinated clusters: complementarities among production regimes, welfare states, and political systems......Page 80
Welfare States......Page 81
Political Systems: Consensus versus Majoritarian......Page 82
Explaining the united states as outlier in the liberal cluster......Page 84
Liberal Responses to Post-Fordism......Page 90
Explaining American Outliers......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 106
References......Page 107
Three: Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy......Page 110
Labor and financial development since 1980......Page 112
Financial Occupations......Page 116
Risk......Page 117
Corporate Governance......Page 120
The origins of modern financial development......Page 123
Financial development in the past......Page 130
Double movement in the past......Page 134
Producerism......Page 140
Double movement redux......Page 145
Pay Issues......Page 152
Board Reforms......Page 153
Proxy Access......Page 154
Mutual Funds and Investment Managers......Page 155
Private Equity and Hedge Funds......Page 157
Conclusion......Page 161
Part two: Institutions and firm and worker behavior......Page 167
Introduction......Page 169
Background......Page 171
Data......Page 173
Tenure Distribution of Jobs by Industry......Page 175
Job ladders by industry......Page 178
Semiconductors......Page 182
Financial Services......Page 187
Software......Page 190
Retail Foods......Page 193
Trucking......Page 197
Conclusions and policy implications......Page 201
Wjwg regressions......Page 202
References......Page 204
Introduction......Page 207
Macro Compositional Changes: More Nonregular Workers......Page 208
More Female Workers......Page 210
Emerging Evidence against Less Stable Employment......Page 211
More Flexible Overall Employment Provided by Nonregular Workers......Page 214
The role of female workers in providing flexibility at the firm level......Page 217
Consequences of the changes......Page 221
Policy implications......Page 224
References......Page 225
Introduction......Page 227
Overview of research on family structure in western europe......Page 229
Data and Empirical Strategy......Page 232
Living Arrangements, Marriage, and Fertility in Western Europe......Page 235
Differences in Preferences for Home Ownership......Page 240
Increase in Female Labor-Force Participation......Page 242
The Role of Mothers Housework......Page 244
The Fathers Occupation and Parents’ Age......Page 245
The Role of Religion and Conservative Attitudes......Page 246
Conclusions......Page 247
References......Page 248
Part three: Contemporary labor—management relations......Page 255
Seven: The New Treaty of Detroit......Page 257
The old treaty of detroit and employee benefits......Page 258
Vebas......Page 261
Retiree health-care liabilities: legacy costs and legacy benefits......Page 265
2007 auto negotiations: the new treaty of detroit......Page 269
Vandalize Employee Benefits Again (VEBA)?......Page 271
What do vebamean for the future of the labor movement and national health insurance?......Page 272
Postscript: June 2009......Page 274
References......Page 278
Eight: Symphony Musicians and Symphony Orchestras......Page 280
Symphony-orchestra finances......Page 281
The symphony musicians’ labor market......Page 285
Collective Representation of Symphony Musicians......Page 288
Bargaining Role of Symphony Management......Page 289
The Ford Foundation Program......Page 291
Evolution of symphony musicians’ working conditions......Page 292
Growth of Musicians’ Salaries......Page 293
From Variable to Fixed Artistic Costs......Page 295
Wage Supplements......Page 296
Implications......Page 297
Wage determination in symphony orchestras......Page 298
Cross-Orchestra Wage Variation......Page 303
Conclusions......Page 307
References......Page 309
Introduction......Page 311
Institutional background and recent developments......Page 312
Theoretical background......Page 317
Works councils, collective agreements, and wages: empirical findings......Page 319
Empirical investigation......Page 320
Conclusions......Page 328
References......Page 329
Appendix......Page 331
Introduction......Page 333
Sector, Occupation, and Training......Page 335
Industrial Relations......Page 338
Attributes of apprentice strikes......Page 339
Interpretation......Page 344
Economics of Bargaining and Training......Page 345
Apprentice Traditions and Left-Wing Politics......Page 346
Content of Apprenticeship......Page 347
Effects on Production......Page 349
Effects on pay structure and training activity......Page 351
Sequel......Page 358
Conclusions......Page 361
References......Page 362
Part four: Public policy and u.s. Labor–market structure......Page 367
Introduction......Page 369
The politics......Page 370
Living-Wage Campaigns......Page 372
Voter Mobilization to Increase and to Index State Minimum Wages......Page 373
Ideology and Political Polarization......Page 375
Meeting Basic Needs and Fairness......Page 376
Business Cycles and Minimum Wages: Votes and Implementation......Page 379
State of the Literature......Page 383
Discussion and conclusions......Page 387
References......Page 388
Introduction......Page 391
A Simple Model of Steady-State Incarceration Rates......Page 393
Trends in the Behavioral and Policy Determinants of Incarceration Rates......Page 397
Decomposing Growth in the U.S. Incarceration Rate into Policy and Behavioral Components......Page 401
What is the incidence of the increase in incarceration rates?......Page 403
How does serving time affect one's employment prospects?......Page 410
Incarceration and the Accumulation of Work Experience......Page 413
Does Having Been in Prison Stigmatize Ex-Offenders?......Page 415
Existing Research on the Employment Consequences of Incarceration......Page 418
Conclusion......Page 425
References......Page 427
Introduction......Page 430
Defining Skill Groups......Page 432
Immigration and Local Skill Distributions......Page 434
Changes in Local Industry Structure......Page 442
Changes in Wage Structures and Within-Sector Utilization Rates......Page 448
References......Page 457
Index......Page 461