Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach

Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach
ISBN-10
0190624426
ISBN-13
9780190624422
Category
Social Science
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2019-01-11
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Dustin Avent-Holt

Description

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect, resources, and rewards. Framing their analysis through a relational account of social and economic life, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt explain how resources are generated and distributed both within and between organizations. They show that inequalities are produced through generic processes that occur in all social relationships: categorization and their resulting status hierarchies, organizational resource pooling, exploitation, social closure, and claims-making. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt focus on the workplace as the primary organization for generating inequality and provide a series of global goals to advance both a comparative organizational research model and to challenge troubling inequalities.

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