Books by Jake Rosenfeld
Jake Rosenfeld is Professor of Sociology at Washington University-St. Louis and the author of You’re Paid What You’re Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy (2021) and What Unions No Longer Do (2014).
You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
by Jake Rosenfeld
In You're Paid What You're Worth Jake Rosenfeld, a Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, explores a key issue in modern society: why it is that people get paid the amount they do. We spoke to Jake about the best books on a subject that affects all of us: our pay.
Interviews with Jake Rosenfeld
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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It
by David Weil -
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Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession
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Nickel and Dimed
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
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Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach
by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey & Dustin Avent-Holt
The best books on Pay, recommended by Jake Rosenfeld
The best books on Pay, recommended by Jake Rosenfeld
Economists have tended to assume that the value of our personal contribution—our marginal product—largely determines what we get paid. In reality, there are many other factors involved that have nothing to do with our qualifications or personal performance. Here Jake Rosenfeld, Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis, explains why it is that senior executive pay growth has shot up in recent decades and why, for workers at the bottom, it has flatlined.
