Work, Pay, and Sustainability: A New Economics of Labor

Greenwood, Daphne T.

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-18
  • 售價: $1,210
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,150
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 260
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1509536752
  • ISBN-13: 9781509536757
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy
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商品描述

Daphne Greenwood presents the first comprehensive introduction to pluralist labor economics. She expands the economics toolbox with theories taken from institutionalist, feminist, social, ecological, and stratification economists. Pluralists, she explains, focus on how formal and informal institutions affect the distribution of productivity dividends--and how this has evolved over time. Pluralists are concerned with job quality as well as financial compensation. They acknowledge the modern-day abundance created by technology, but advocate for institutional changes to direct it in equitable and sustainable ways.

Building on the work of many heterodox economists, Greenwood introduces wage and employment models that are embedded in the economy, environment, and society. Beginning with evidence on work and pay in the US today, she explains why tools for analyzing commodity exchange are not sufficient for analyzing labor relationships. She brings bargaining power to the fore, analyses dynamic monopsony, and looks at the role of wealth as well as income in framing opportunities. Throughout the book, Greenwood addresses threats to sustainability and equity from unpaid social costs; institutional changes such as financialization and fissured workplaces; as well as race-ethnicity and gender. Among the possibilities explored for improving work and pay are sectoral bargaining, job guarantees, worker-owned cooperatives, and universal basic income.

The first undergraduate-friendly book on its topic, Work, Pay and Sustainability is an important resource for students and scholars alike.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

Daphne Greenwood 提出了首部全面介紹多元主義勞動經濟學的著作。她擴展了經濟學的工具箱,融入了來自制度主義、女性主義、社會、環境及階層經濟學家的理論。她解釋道,多元主義者關注正式與非正式制度如何影響生產力紅利的分配,以及這一過程隨時間的演變。多元主義者關心的不僅是財務補償,還包括工作質量。他們承認科技所創造的現代豐富,但主張進行制度性變革,以公平和可持續的方式引導這些資源。

在許多異端經濟學家的研究基礎上,Greenwood 介紹了嵌入經濟、環境和社會中的工資和就業模型。她從當前美國的工作和薪酬證據開始,解釋為何分析商品交換的工具不足以分析勞動關係。她將談判權力置於重要位置,分析動態壟斷,並探討財富和收入在塑造機會中的角色。在整本書中,Greenwood 討論了來自未支付社會成本的可持續性和公平性威脅;如金融化和分裂工作場所等制度性變革;以及種族、族裔和性別等議題。她探討了改善工作和薪酬的可能性,包括行業談判、工作保障、工人擁有的合作社和普遍基本收入。

作為該主題首部適合本科生的書籍,《工作、薪酬與可持續性》是學生和學者的重要資源。

作者簡介

Daphne T. Greenwood is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Daphne T. Greenwood 是科羅拉多大學科羅拉多泉分校的經濟學名譽教授。