The Role of Employers in Split Labor Markets: An Event-Structure Analysis of Racial Conflict and AFL Organizing, 1917-1919

Brown, Cliff

doi:10.1093/sf/79.2.653

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“…ESA offers systematic, computer-assisted procedure to model causal relationships across observed events (Corsaro & Heise, 1990;Brown, 2000). Concretely, we used on-line program "ETHNO" to analyze the sequential event data we had extracted.…”

Section: Event Structure Analysismentioning

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Path Dependence of Power Relations, Path-Breaking Change and Technological Adaptation

Valorinta

Schildt

Lamberg

2011

Industry and Innovation

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We study path-dependence of technological systems and power relations inside companies. While existing literature suggests power relations and technology to be path-dependent and influenced by each other, interactions across these evolutionary processes remain poorly understood. We studied the history of four retail firms over forty years, applying event structure analysis to explicate key dynamics. Companies exhibited two episodes of converging path dependency, where power relations further increased technological inertia. In each case, power initially concentrated outside the central headquarters. Path-breaking change led all firms to centralize power and implement networked IT systems supporting central control. We discuss the ability of converging technological and organizational path dependencies to create competitive disadvantage. Widely available technological advances create advantage even when competitors have similar existing systems, when power structures are strongly path-dependent, impeding technological change. Thus, company owners ought to create path-breaking disruptions in power relations when technological adoption provides value.

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Section: Event Structure Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Path Dependence of Power Relations, Path-Breaking Change and Technological Adaptation

Valorinta

Schildt

Lamberg

2011

Industry and Innovation

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“…ESA uses historical narratives and 'an inferential logic that is systematic, largely non-probabilistic, and procedurally replicable' (Griffin and Ragin, 1994, p. 4). It allows for imputing the underlying structure of a causal argument (Brown, 2000). We used ETHNO (ESA's interactive computer programme) to map the causal flow of events that occurred during the innovation stream (Fig.…”

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Balancing contradictory temporality during the unfold of innovation streams

Simon

Tellier

2016

International Journal of Project Management

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International audienceThis article focuses on individuals working on innovation developments during the unfolding of innovation streams. Innovation streams include both exploitation-and exploration-oriented projects. Those projects imply different temporalities and can be conducted at different paces. This research examines how different temporalities within a single innovation stream are managed first at the level of projects and then among projects. We collected data on an innovation stream in the semiconductor industry. We explain how teams and organization develop processes and tools to address different temporalities. The results show that the process of learning occurs first within projects and then among projects. Our research offers new understandings of the transition of organizations towards a project-based structure by demonstrating that changes in practices can occur first as a reaction to external events, then as the results of new arrangements triggered by management and finally as the consequences of the team's proactive actions

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“…In an attempted to understand the role of the state in the split labor market, scholars have explored employer decision-making, racist ideologies and mobilization (Brown & Boswell 1995;Brown & Brueggemann 1997;Brown 2000;Boswell, Brown, Brueggemann and Peters 2006). Adding a new twist to the existing literature, Brown and Boswell (1995) provide an analysis concerning the possibility of interracial solidarity or strikebreaking.…”

Section: Split Labor Market Theorymentioning

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The Threat of the “Other”: Ethnic Competition and Racial Interest

Gonzalez‐Sobrino

2016

Sociology Compass

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Racial conflict has been at the center of US society since its inception. Various theories have tried to explain why racial conflict arises and what the motivating factors are. The aim of this article is to examine one of these theories––ethnic competition––by reviewing the sociological literature from the 1970s to present that focuses on racial interest, ethnic competition, and racial threat.

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The Role of Employers in Split Labor Markets: An Event-Structure Analysis of Racial Conflict and AFL Organizing, 1917-1919

Cited by 33 publications

References 63 publications

Path Dependence of Power Relations, Path-Breaking Change and Technological Adaptation

Path Dependence of Power Relations, Path-Breaking Change and Technological Adaptation

Balancing contradictory temporality during the unfold of innovation streams

The Threat of the “Other”: Ethnic Competition and Racial Interest

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