You're paid what you're worth : and other myths of the modern economy / Jake Rosenfeld.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©2021Description: 364 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780674916593
- You are paid what you are worth
- HD6061 .R67 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Questions about pay: What does determine our pay? -- What do we think determines our pay? -- Part II. Paying for performance?: Employers against the free market -- Mismeasuring performance and the pitfalls of paying for merit -- The bosses' boss -- Part III. Paying for the job?: When good jobs go bad -- Bad jobs can be good -- Part IV. Toward a fairer wage: Rethinking inequality -- Toward a fairer wage.
"Setting wages isn't an exact science, but we like to think that our workplace performance provides an objective basis for pay. You're Paid What You're Worth offers a bold theory to the contrary, arguing that pay is decided in contests over interests and ideals-that social conflicts, not economic metrics, determine who gets how much"--