Social Power and the Labour Market: A Radical Approach to Labour Economics

ISBN-13: 9780333291801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 280 str.

Purdy; David Purdy

Opis

A discussion of the power relationships between employers, workers and their organizations in capitalist societies. It looks at the patterns of dominance and subordination determined by capitalist structure, gender division and occupational hierarchy, and outlines the egalitarian strategy.

Spis treści

Part 1 Theory: the theory of the labour market - the exchange model and the reproduction model; two paradigms - exchange and reproduction; power in the exchange and in the reproduction models; the peculiarities of labour power; Labour's goals and the reproduction of unequal power. Part 2 The future of the labour market: capitalism, gender and toil; reduced working time and the redivision of labour; basic income, social security and the labour market; basic income and the transformation of work; basic income - incentives, ethics and political strategy.