Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, "Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach"
English | ISBN: 0190624434 | 2019 | 304 pages | EPUB | 87 MB
English | ISBN: 0190624434 | 2019 | 304 pages | EPUB | 87 MB
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.