Books by Rick Wartzman
“Wartzman is a wonderful, award winning journalist who wrote for the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times. And this is a nice book where he focuses on a couple major corporations, including Coca-Cola, and traces a sea change in attitudes and behaviors among the America CEO class over time.” Read more...
Jake Rosenfeld, Sociologist
Interviews where books by Rick Wartzman were recommended
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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
by Truman F. Bewley -
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Nickel and Dimed
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
by Rick Wartzman -
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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.