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- Title
POSITIONAL POWER, STRIKES AND WAGES.
- Authors
Luca Perrone; Wright, Erik Olin; Griffin, Larry J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the impact of positional power on strikes. This paper has three primary objectives: to discuss a strategy for assessing the "structural power" of strikers, conceptualized as the varying amount of "disruptive potential" endowed upon workers by virtue of their different positions in the system of economic interdependencies; to develop a preliminary operationalization of this concept and to provide a tentative validation of its empirical utility; and to assess empirically the relationship between disruptive potential of categories of workers and their actual strike behavior. Recent sociological analyses have found in the above negative capacity, stemming from strategic position in the flow of goods and services, the newest and most effective power leverage of certain groups of workers. The external validity of the outdegrees measure of positional advantage is assessed by the degree to which it predicts what is perhaps the most obvious short-term objective of the working class in a market-based economy, wage increases.
- Subjects
STRIKES &; lockouts; STRIKEBREAKERS; LABOR incentives; WAGES; ECONOMIC forecasting; PAY for performance
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1984, Vol 49, Issue 3, p412
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2095284