Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004269590
,
9004269592
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series 152
Content:
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Continuing Attempts to Square the Circle (Or, Competitive Theory Confronts Differential Wage Rates) -- Capitalist Accumulation and the Aggregate Labour Market -- Wage Differentials and the Aggregate Labour Market -- Capitalist Competition and Differential Profit Rates -- Capitalist Competition and Differential Wage Rates (I): The Analysis of Regulating Capitals -- Capitalist Competition and Differential Wage Rates (II): Non-regulating Capitals and Differential Profit Rates -- Conclusion -- The Past 20 Years Have Not Been Pretty -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
Economists generally assume that wage differentials among similar workers will only endure when competition in the capital and/or labor market is restricted. In contrast, Howard Botwinick uses a classical Marxist analysis of real capitalist competition to show that substantial patterns of wage disparity can persist despite high levels of competition. Indeed, the author provocatively argues that competition and technical change often militate against wage equalization. In addition to providing the basis for a more unified analysis of race and gender inequality within labor markets, Botwinick’s work has important implications for contemporary union strategies. Going against mainstream proponents of labor-management cooperation, the author calls for militant union organization that can once again take wages and working conditions out of capitalist competition. This revised edition was originally published under the same title in 1993 by Princeton University Press
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004269583
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Botwinick, Howard, 1951- Persistent inequalities Boston : Brill, [2017]
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004269590
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