Fair Shares

by Peter Swenson and Peter A. Swenson

Conflict between labor and capital reflects the competitive and conflict-laden relations within the working class itself, Peter Swenson maintains. Fair Shares examines the internal conflicts of organized labor regarding distribution of wages in order to explain both union leaders' market-structuring objectives in the "political economy", and their imperative to shape and fulfill workers' notions of pay fairness in the "moral economy". Swenson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801421357
• ISBN13: 9780801421358
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher