eopleretail salesWorking poorsome H.S.laborers* $20K22%service workerslow paid salesUnderclasssome H.S.welfare recipients* $13K 3% unemployedpart time employed Use some of these categories in your paper to locate your and your family's mobility patterns. As students, there might be some inconsistency of where you are coming from and where you are likely to end up.JAMES BARONOrganizational Perspectives on Stratification Organizations impinge on career outcomes in two important ways:1) The division of labor among jobs and organizations generates a distribution of opportunities and rewards that often antedates the hiring of people to fill those jobs.2) Organization procedures for matching workers to jobs affect the distribution of rewards and opportunities within and across firms and thus influence the likelihood of career success Why Some Firms Pay and Promote More than Others- ''Older approaches'': human capital, status attainment-more recent approach: internal labor markets INTERNAL LABOR MARKET: Competing Interpretations1) Labor economists emphasize technical determinants: technological progress increases workers' skill monopoly in the firm and that internal advancement opportunities are required so that senior workers will train junior personnel2) Williamson emphasizes informational constraints that favor internal labor promotion hierarchies over perfectly competitive labor market.3) Neo-Marxists regarded internal labor markets as an effort by capitalists to control a volatile work force. Researchers have documented the impact of internal labor markets in two ways:1) Attempts to infer how internal labor markets operate from data on individual career paths. E.g. attainment researchers have attributed racial and sexual differences in the effects that schooling and first job have on career outcomes to the exclusion of women and minorities from internal labor markets. This research does not illuminate how or why this occurs.2) Oth...
