The inequality of pay / by Henry Phelps Brown

Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a very good dust wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : 1 online resource (xv, 360 p.) : ill. Notes : Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents : Cover Page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. THE PROBLEM; 1.1. The growth of interest in the inequality of pay; 1.2. The economist's approach to pay determination; 1.3. The sociologist's approach to pay determination; 1.4. The practical issue; 1.5. The plan of this work; 2. A SURVEY OF THE PAY STRUCTURE BY OCCUPATION; 2.1. Grouping by occupation; 2.2. The comparability of figures of pay by occupation; 2.3. A conspectus of the pay structure by occupation in Western countries. 2.4. The pay structure by occupation in the Soviet-type economies2.5. Material and moral incentives in China and Cuba; 2.6. Egalitarianism in Israel; 2.7. Yugoslavia: a special case; 2.8. The relative pay of particular occupations; 2.9. Review and discussion; 3. THE COURSE OF CHANGE IN THE PAY STRUCTURE; 3.1. Changes in the differential for manual skill; 3.2. Changes in the relations between the pay for whitecollar and for manual occupations; 3.3. Changes in the relative pay of occupations linked with particular industries; 3.4. The influence of trade unions on occupational differentials. 3.5. Review and discussion4. PAY STRUCTURE AND STATUS; 4.1. The ordering of occupations by average earnings; 4.2. The ordering of occupations by status; 4.3. Pay differentials and the scale of status; 4.4. The nature of status; 4.5. Station in life as a basis of assigned income; 4.6. Is status prior to pay?; 4.7. Evidence for status moulding pay in modern societies; 4.8. The influence of custom; 4.9. Divergences between the rank orders of status and pay; 4.9.1. Instances of pay and status offsetting one another; 4.9.2. Stratification by status differing from ranking by pay. 4.10. Review and discussion5. DISCRIMINATION; 5.1. Forms of discrimination; 5.2. Discrimination against women; 5.2.1. Discrimination against women before the market; 5.2.2. Discrimination against women within the market; 5.3. Discrimination against minorities; 5.3.1. Discrimination against blacks before the market; 5.3.2. Discrimination against blacks within the market; 5.4. The effects of raising minimum wages, as a test for the presence of discrimination; 5.5. Review and discussion; 6. SOCIAL CLASS AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY; 6.1. The assignment of occupations to social classes. 6.2. Intergenerational mobility between occupations6.3. Changes in intergenerational mobility over time; 6.4. The extent of intergenerational movement into and out of the top grade; 6.5. Review and discussion; 7. SOCIAL CLASS, MENTAL ABILITY, AND EDUCATION; 7.1. The association between occupation and I.Q.; 7.2. Evidence for the genetic determination of I.Q. potential; 7.3. The effects of differences between classes in the upbringing of children on the development of I.Q.; 7.4. The relation between parents' class and their children's I.Q.; 7.5. Class differences in the use made of education7.6. Class differences in extent of education. Subjects : History 1264.Wages. Income distribution. Wages. Income distribution. Salaries and Fringe Benefits.