A Note on Wage Rates in Defense Industries

Karier, Thomas

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.1987.tb00704.x

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“…The cost plus basis of much defense contracting and the associated protection from unexpected outcomes helps explain Karier’s (1987) finding of a substantial defense‐related wage premium among manufacturing firms and the findings of Lerner (1992) and Campbell (1993) that the mobility of engineers and other professionals to and from defense‐related industries and regions was influenced by perceived advantages of defense industry jobs.…”

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Why Are Quit Rates Lower Among Defense Contractors?

Watkins¹,

Hyclak

2011

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

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This paper presents empirical evidence of lower quit rates at small manufacturers with defense contracts and examines whether this is associated with differences in their human resource policies and organizational practices and strategies. We take advantage of an original data set to compare labor quits, workforce skills, and occupational structure between defense-contracting and noncontracting small manufacturers in eastern Pennsylvania. We find that the remarkably large defense contractor advantage in quit rates-7 percentage points-is almost totally explained by differences in skills, operational strategies, and workforce management and training practices, suggesting a mediation effect through these HR practices. Defense-contracting status emerges as an important overlooked variable in HRM studies.

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Why Are Quit Rates Lower Among Defense Contractors?

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Hyclak

2011

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

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“… 5 For accounts of changing associational power in the aerospace industries, see, e.g. Danford et al (2002, 2007), Belman and Voos (1993), Erickson (1992) and Karier (1987). …”

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From mass mobilization to neoliberal war-making: Labor strikes and military-industrial transformation in the United States

Payne

2023

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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How did workers affect—and how were they affected by—the dramatic transformations of U.S. war-making that have occurred since the mid-twentieth century? Where do such transformations leave workers and war in the twenty-first century? Using newly compiled data on workers’ strikes in the U.S. armaments industries from World War II through the present, this paper examines the relationship between labor and military-industrial restructuring. The paper introduces the concept of regimes of war-making and makes three main arguments. First, workers’ power was a significant force shaping the shift from a regime of mass mobilization war-making to a regime of neoliberal war-making, as armaments firms aimed to overcome the constraints imposed by workers in the mid-twentieth century. Wartime mobilizations—for Korea and Vietnam—temporarily stymied these efforts by enhancing the disruptive power of workers, who leveraged that power into pauses or reversals of firms’ initial attempts at restructuring. Second, U.S. defeat in Vietnam was a watershed moment. Mass mobilization was abandoned, and the changing nature of war meant that subsequent military buildups offered workers little leverage with which to resist restructuring. Third, in the twenty-first century, the combination of greatly expanded wars and decades of restructuring has resulted in a bifurcation among armaments workers, between those producing supplies needed for pressing counterinsurgency operations and those producing other innovative, but unused, systems. Thus, while the regime of neoliberal war-making has reduced the size and strength of armaments workers in general, some still have significant disruptive potential at the present juncture.

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The British defence industry in the 1990s: a labour market perspective

Lovering¹

1991

Industrial Relations Journal

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A Note on Wage Rates in Defense Industries

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Why Are Quit Rates Lower Among Defense Contractors?

Why Are Quit Rates Lower Among Defense Contractors?

From mass mobilization to neoliberal war-making: Labor strikes and military-industrial transformation in the United States

The British defence industry in the 1990s: a labour market perspective

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