Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The historical transformation of labor in the United States

David Gordon

ISBN 10: 0521289211 / ISBN 13: 9780521289214

Published by Cambridge University Press 2009-06-01, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The historical transformation of labor in the United States
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009-06-01
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521289211
• ISBN 13: 9780521289214
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Segmented Work, Divided Workers presents a restatement and expansion of the theory of labor segmentation by three of its founding scholars. The authors argue that divisions with the US working class are rooted in a segmentation of jobs since World War II. They explain the origins of job segmentation through a careful and systematic historical analysis of changes in the labor process and the structure of labor markets since the early 1800s. this analysis builds, in turn, upon hypotheses about successive stages in the history of capitalist development. Segmented Work, Divided Workers integrates this economics analysis with a careful historial appreciation of the complexity of working-class experience in the United States.

Book Description

This book presents a restatement and expansion of the theory of labor segmentation by three of its founding scholars. The authors argue that divisions with the US working class are rooted in a segmentation of jobs since World War II.