Networks, Work, and Inequality

McDonald S. - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

• List of Contributors.Acknowledgements. Introduction. Frontiers of Sociological Research on Networks, Work, and Inequality. What Might a Labor Market Look Like?. Race, Network Hiring, and Statistical Discrimination. Social Networks, Job Search, and Job Earnings in a Transitional Economy: An Institutional Embeddedness Argument. Consent and the Subjective World of the Worker. The Network-Organized Labor Process: Control and Autonomy in Web Production Work. Employee Morale and Organizational Climate in Schools: The Importance of Affective Coworker Relationships. Gender Inequality and the Structure of Occupational Identity: The Case of Elite Sociological Publication. Social Capital and Work Activity: Autonomy, Supervision, and Creativity in Interpersonal Networks. Structural Embeddedness of Accessed Networks and Innovation at Work. Institutional Embeddedness of Network Embeddedness in the Workplace: Social Integration at Work and Employee’s Health Across Three Societies. Forms of Social Capital: Family Resources, Campus Networks, and Dominant Class Advantage at an Elite University. Jumping Ship or Merely Crossing the Aisle? An Analysis of the Circulation of Elite Lawyers. Networks, Work and Inequality. Research in the sociology of work. Research in the sociology of work. Copyright page.