Unlevel Playing Fields, Ch. 7

Wage determination under political economy (Context, Collective Behavior, Conflict & Change)

Labor/labor power, home production, social wage, labor control strategies, segmentation, institutions & unemployment

Labor theory of Value: Commodities worth the total amount of labor required to produce them

Labor: Actual Work vs. Labor power: Potential to work (or time)

customary standard of living & the source of profits

'Unproductive' Housewife:
Family Wage: single wage earner for entire family
Jobs with Wives: part of value of labor power

'Unproductive' Government:
Social Wage: part of value of labor power

Getting Work From Workers:
1) Cost of Job Loss: income difference between having/losing a job
2) Labor Process: simplify & control
simple control
technical control
bureaucratic control

Labor Segmentation
primary independent segment
primary subordinate segment
secondary segment

?Internal labor markets
?Divide-and-conquer

changes over time: primary subordinate decreasing? secondary segment increasing?

Customs & Institutions
Job Evaluation

Macroeconomics
Business Cycles
Unemployment
Positive Feedback