Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 M11 11 - 248 pages
Work occupies a pivotal role in the daily activities and over the course of a lifetime of members of modern societies. In anticipation, work influ ences education and training; it has much to do with shaping current earned income and status in the community; and in retrospect, it influ ences retirement income and activities. It is a powerful force affecting personal associations. In our society work is deeply encased in moral and religious values: As Poor Richard says, A Life of Leisure and a Life of Laziness are two Things. Do you imagine that Sloth will afford you more Comfort than Labour? No, for as Poor Richard says: ... Industry gives Comfort, and Plenty and Respect. Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. But few words have as many different meanings and nuances as "work": to forge or to shape, to stir or to knead, to solve, to exploit, to practice trickery for some end, to excite or to provoke, to persuade or to influence, to toil, and the like. A need for precision in meaning is requisite with respect to work, not only in common discourse, but, even more so, in scholarly communication.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Research on Work Structures
7
Multivariate Structuralists
19
The Utility of a Multivariate Approach to Work Structures
29
Interrelations among Work Structures
39
Markets
47
Work and Industry Processes
59
Correlates of Class
66
Labor Market
135
Careers and Mobility
151
Labor Force
157
WorkRelated Behavior
166
Jobs and Skills
174
Three Candid Camera Shots of the States Economic Roles
181
The NationStates Role in Economic Growth and Development
191
Conclusion
204

Correlates of Occupations
78
Correlates of Organizations
88
Correlates of Industries
101
Correlates of Unions
113
Consequences of Work
127
Political Markets
212
The Internationalization of Work and Industry Structures
219
Markets
228
Subject Index
235
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