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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 ...
Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment by John F. Mahon; Richard A. McGowan
(Cornell University, The Johnson School, 1999)
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest by Wendy Nelson Espeland
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
By the time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. Analysts argue that they did so in response to the feminization of the workforce. This study charts ...
A Market is a Market is a Market?: Institutional Conditions for the Construction of Market Mechanisms
(Brandenburg-Berliner Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, 1999)