Marquita R. Walker

The Daily Grind (eBook, ePUB)

How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Daily Grind:How WorkersNavigate the Employment Relationship introduces students to the tensions between labor and management within the U.S. employment relationship and explores how workers, operating in a socially and culturally structured system of capitalism, are influenced and manipulated by economic institutions and polity which exploit, devalue, and dehumanize workers in the name of corporate profit. The text covers how the American work ethic of the early nineteenth century helped shape the current perspective on the labor-management relationship, and how, over time, the Protestant and patriarchal influences of that period have countered the collective actions of workers in profound ways. The text further explores the effect of societal, cultural, and economic structures, both global and local, which limit workers' ability to achieve the "American Dream" and result in depressed economic conditions and discouraged workers. The text's focus on the current economic inequality and lack of social mobility challenges the current neoliberal ideology that capitalism is the best economic system. The overarching framework for The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship is situated in Labor Process Theory (LPT) which explores the control and resistance dichotomy between labor and management, the systematic deskilling of the workforce in order to increase production and increase owners' profits, and examines conflict over control of the labor process. An extension of Marxist theory about the organization of work, LPT explores the employment relationship, the control of work, the payment of work, the skills necessary for work, and the facilitation of work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739193341
• Artikelnr.: 41868949

Autorenporträt

Marquita R. Walker is associate professor in the Department of Labor Studies, School of Social Work, at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Inhaltsangabe

The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship Table of
Contents Overview About the Author Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1:
An Overview of the Field of Labor Studies 1.What is Labor Studies? 2.The
American Work Ethic 3.Workers, Culture and Social Class 4.Worker's Place in
the Social Structure 5.Labor's Place in the Social Structure Chapter 2:
Employment Relations in Historical Perspective, 1870-1935 1.The First and
Second Industrial Revolutions 2.Union Formation and Strikes 3.Social
Environment: Early 20th Century 4.Court Decision, Legislation, and Public
Opinion Chapter 3: Employment Relations in Historical Perspective,
1935-present 1.Changing of the Guard 2.The New Deal 3.WWII Begins 4.Labor
in Crisis and Transition 5.Labor's Structural and Organizational Response
Chapter 4: Theoretical Models Associated with the Labor Movement A. The
Compulsory Nature of Unionism B. Theories of the Labor Movement C. Social
Movement Unionism D. Militancy and Social Movements Chapter 5: The Current
State of the U.S. Employment Relationship A. Poverty, Wealth and Income
Inequities, and Equality versus Equity B. Poverty in the U.S. C. Wealth and
Income Inequality D. Policies to Alleviate Poverty: Minimum Wage and the
Earned Income Tax Credit E. Equality versus Equity: The Role of Fairness
Chapter 6: The Evolution of the Employment Relationship 1.Standard and
Nonstandard Employment Relationships 2.The Nature of the Employment
Relationship 3.Employment Relationships over Time 4.Job Insecurity in
Employment Relationships 5.Globalization's Effect on Workers Chapter 7:
Compensation for American Workers A. Time-oriented versus Task-oriented
Labor B. Human, Social, and Cultural Capital C. Work versus Leisure D.
American Workers and Leave Time E. Wage Theft Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity
in the Employment Relationship A. Definitions of Race and Ethnicity B.
Racial and Ethnic Immigration Flows C. Causes and Continuations of Racial
and Ethnic Disparities Chapter 9: Gender and the Employment Relationship A.
Brief History of Women's Devalued Status B. Women's Participation in the
Labor Force C. Women as Primary Care-givers C. Wage Disparities Resulting
from Gender D. Gender Discrimination in the Workplace E. Gender Disparities
in Unions Glossary References Index