Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market

Abstract

The discussion in Chapter 11 of the complex relationship between pay and productivity drew on a wide array of material from Chapters 5, 8, 9, and 10. In so doing, it significantly expanded the analytical framework available for thinking critically about labor issues. It is this analytical framework that allows one to strip away the rhetoric that often surrounds highly controversial labor market issues and see more clearly the consequences of various labor market practices and policies. Perhaps no topic is more controversial than that taken up in Chapter 12.