Analyzes sex discrimination in professional employment in a metropolitan publishing firm. How sex differentials in earnings are generated within a single company; The company's internal labor market; Impact of marriage and children on the results and interpretation of the data; Differences in...

The decline in the scope and power of American unions has led to a search for new strategies and new organizational forms to better succeed in representing the interests of employees in the labour market. This paper examines the role of community-based organizations of the sort that proved so...

The American labor market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need of employers to maximize flexibility if they are to survive in an increasingly competitive...

High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) took root in the early 1990s but then faced an environment of organizational turmoil and restructuring. This paper, drawing on a second-round survey of employers that replicated and extended a 1992 survey, addresses two questions: whether HPWO...

Results of an empirical test of some ideas about the segmentation of the labor force. Classification of the different jobs within the primary sector; Social status of occupations; Empirical analysis; Empirical results. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)