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National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Job Autonomy Is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the United States, Canada, and Australia
(Sage Publications, 1999)
We present evidence that, across countries, similar jobs carry very different levels of autonomy. Workers in Nordic countries have greater discretion than workers in the United States, Canada, and Australia, all else being ...
Review of Governance of the American Economy, ed. by John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, and Leon N. Lindberg
(American Sociological Association, 1992)
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1997)
It is hypothesized that collective efficacy, defined as social cohesion among neighbors combined with their willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good, is linked to reduced violence. This hypothesis was tested ...
The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)
Review of Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France: A Social History of the Parisian Gas Company, by Lenard R. Berlanstein
(American Sociological Association, 1993)
How can one best grasp the social transformations of the nineteenth century? Social historians have tried training their sights on an exemplary city, a particular social group, an illustrative historical incident, or a ...
Review of Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate, by Otis L. Graham, Jr.
(American Sociological Association, 1993)
Otis Graham's Losing Time is an ode, in three parts, to industrial policy. In the first part, Graham reviews the U.S. "industrial policy" debate of the early 1980s, culminating in Congress's 1984 decision against national ...
How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management: Employer Response to Antidiscrimination Law, 1961 to 1996
(Sage Publications, 1998)
How did corporate affirmative action programs become diversity programs? During the 1970s, active federal enforcement of equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action (AA) law, coupled with ambiguity about the ...
Review of Cultural Theory, by Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky
(Oxford University Press, 1991)