Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
![Digital Commons Network](http://assets.bepress.com/20200205/img/dcn/DCsunburst.png)
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Sociology (4)
- Economics (2)
- Labor and Employment Law (2)
- Law (2)
- Work, Economy and Organizations (2)
-
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Business (1)
- Community-Based Research (1)
- Demography, Population, and Ecology (1)
- Family, Life Course, and Society (1)
- Geography (1)
- Growth and Development (1)
- History (1)
- Inequality and Stratification (1)
- International Business (1)
- International Economics (1)
- International Law (1)
- Labor Economics (1)
- Labor Relations (1)
- Law and Economics (1)
- Library and Information Science (1)
- Other Sociology (1)
- Place and Environment (1)
- Politics and Social Change (1)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (1)
- Race and Ethnicity (1)
- Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance (1)
- Social Psychology and Interaction (1)
- Sociology of Culture (1)
- Institution
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Melville’S Economy Of Language, Paul Royster
Melville’S Economy Of Language, Paul Royster
Paul Royster
This essay discusses two works by American writer Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre (1852), with emphasis on the uses of economic metaphors and on the issues of labor and alienation in the production of whale oil and of literature. Its argument is that Melville considered the mythology of American capitalism positively in the earlier work, and negatively in the later one. Moby-Dick explores the economic relations of the (capitalist) production of whale oil and converts them to metaphors for metaphysical truths. Pierre explores the economic relations involved in the production of literature and exposes the extent to which a …
Labor Supply With Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates And Their Tax Policy Implications, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
Labor Supply With Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates And Their Tax Policy Implications, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
Center for Policy Research
Our research fleshes out econometric details of examining possible social interactions in labor supply. We look for a response of a person's hours worked to hours worked in the labor market reference group, which includes those with similar age, family structure, and location. We identify endogenous spillovers by instrumenting average hours worked in the reference group with hours worked in neighboring reference groups. Estimates of the canonical labor supply model indicate positive economically important spillovers for adult men. The estimated total wage elasticity of labor supply is 0.22, where 0.08 is the exogenous wage change effect and 0.14 is the …
Exploitation Or Fun?: The Lived Experience Of Teenage Employment In Suburban America, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Exploitation Or Fun?: The Lived Experience Of Teenage Employment In Suburban America, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Objectivist scholars characterize typical teenage jobs as “exploitive”: highly routinized service sector jobs with low pay, no benefits, minimum skill requirements, and little time off. This view assumes exploitive characteristics are inherent in the jobs, ignoring the lived experience of the teenage workers. This article focuses on the lived work experience of particularly affluent, suburban teenagers who work in these jobs and explores the meaning they create during their everyday work experience. Based on a large ethnographic study conducted with the teenage workers at a national coffee franchise, this article unravels the ways in which objectivist views of these “bad …
Labor And Social Citizenship In Colonial And Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives In A Continental Context, Franco Barchiesi
Labor And Social Citizenship In Colonial And Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives In A Continental Context, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Commodification, Economic Restructuring, And The Changing Urban Geography Of Labor In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case Of Gauteng Province, 1991-2001, Franco Barchiesi
Commodification, Economic Restructuring, And The Changing Urban Geography Of Labor In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case Of Gauteng Province, 1991-2001, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Labor Struggles, New Social Movements, And America's Favorite Pastime: New York Workers Take On New Era Cap Company, Victoria Carty
Labor Struggles, New Social Movements, And America's Favorite Pastime: New York Workers Take On New Era Cap Company, Victoria Carty
Sociology Faculty Articles and Research
Contemporary economic globalization, which is driven and regulated primarily by multinational corporations, has a direct impact on workers' lives. Trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tend to be controlled by corporate interests in the wealthy, industrialized nations. Those countries set the agenda to protect the interests of foreign investors and facilitate the mobility of capital, but they do little to protect the interests of labor. In response, workers in both the global North and South have been forced to rely on their own individual efforts to protect themselves against unfair labor practices. This article presents …