- Capitalists, Workers, and Fiscal Policy
- Thomas R. Michl
- Drawing on the work of the classical-Marxian economists and their modern successors, this book sets forth a new model of economic growth and distribution, and applies it to two major policy issues: public debt and social security.
- Hardcover 2009
- Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China
- Endymion Wilkinson
- This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century. The authors show that by the sixteenth century, commercial and handicraft towns linked to national and local markets had already begun to emerge. Case studies of managerial landlords, who form the main focus of this study, are included as well as generalizations drawn from questionnaire materials.
- Hardcover 1978
- Natives and Newcomers
- Clyde Griffen
- Sally Griffen
- This important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes which shaped that mobility, and, simultaneously, to vivify the working lives of anonymous American men and women.
- Hardcover 1978
- Rewarding Work
- Edmund S. Phelps
- Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the labor force, and the job attachment of those remaining has weakened, also reducing employment. For Edmund Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose ill effects have spread widely and are undermining the free-enterprise system itself. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Rewarding Work
- Edmund S. Phelps
- Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and that of the middle class, resulting in the departure or frustration of much of the labor force. For Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.
- Paperback 2007
- Sustaining the New Economy
- Martin Carnoy
- This book explores the growing tension between the requirements of employers for a flexible work force and the ability of parents and communities to nurture their children and provide for their health, welfare, and education. Increasingly, workers must be able to move across firms and even across types of work, as jobs get redefined, thus separating workers from the social institutions--family, long-term jobs, and stable communities--that sustained economic expansions in the past and supported the growth and development of the next generation.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Time Divide
- Jerry A. Jacobs
- Kathleen Gerson
- In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jacobs and Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways--between the overworked and the underemployed, women and men, parents and non-parents.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005