Fringe Benefits: A Review Essay on the American Workplace

Licht, Walter

doi:10.1017/s0147547900013715

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“…6. Cohen, L (1991), Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 pages; also Licht, W (2008), Sometimes, when it is difficult for an employee to find a decent house in a poor country, the employer may build suitable accommodation for them. Sometimes, when the cost of housing in the destination is too high for an employee to afford, the employer may also provide it.…”

Section: Housing Provision By Employers In the Worldmentioning

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Employers as landlords for rural-to-urban migrants in Chinese cities

Duda²

2010

Environment and Urbanization

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In Chinese cities, employer-provided housing has played an important part in accommodating low-income, rural-to-urban migrants. Employer housing is often used to study other problems such as management style or worker psychology. In this paper we intend to examine employer-provided housing for its own sake. We use two surveys in the cities of Taiyuan and Tianjin in China to understand the reasons why Chinese employers want to provide housing for employees, the conditions of this type of housing and whether workers are satisfied with it. In doing so, we may identify areas that suffer from serious market failure and will discuss possible solutions to the problems.

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Section: Housing Provision By Employers In the Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employers as landlords for rural-to-urban migrants in Chinese cities

Duda²

2010

Environment and Urbanization

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“…Private-sector fringe benefits, of which PSL is one component, were rare prior to World War II ( 16 ), but have grown rapidly since then. In the absence of legal requirements, employers' provision of benefits has been ascribed to bargaining by labor union, a firm's stability and profitability, religious and ethical concerns of corporate leaders, and institutional factors such as the professionalization of human resources personnel ( 17 ). The U.S. Labor Department reported on the prevalence of employee benefits for the first time in 1979, at which time 56% of full-time employees in private-sector industries had access to PSL ( 18 ).…”

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State policies that promote, and that inhibit, improved public health: An exploratory analysis of paid sick leave

Wolf

2022

Front. Public Health

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The United States has no national requirement that employers provide paid sick leave (PSL) to their employees, despite the many established public health benefits of PSL access. Many states, and some localities, have passed laws requiring PSL within their jurisdictions. Past studies have shown that these PSL mandates are effective in promoting increased PSL access. However, past studies have not considered two other commonly-used state policy initiatives—PSL preemption and right-to-work laws—that could hypothetically influence employers' decisions to provide PSL. During the past few decades, all possible combinations of these policy interventions can be found in one or more U.S. states. This study estimates the combined associations of these 3 policies with PSL access. The estimates support recent research on the positive effects of PSL mandates, but also suggest that PSL preemption and right-to-work laws may have offsetting effects. Failure to take account of these additional policies may lead to an over-estimate of the effectiveness of PSL mandates.

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Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach

Scheiring

King

2022

Theor Soc

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Deindustrialization is a major burden on workers’ health in many countries, calling for theoretically informed sociological analysis. Here, we present a novel neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization. We conceptualize industry as a social institution whose disintegration has widespread implications for the social fabric. Combining Durkheimian and Marxian categories, we show that deindustrialization generates ruptures in economic production, which entail job and income loss, increased exploitation, social inequality, and the disruption of services. These ruptures spill over to the field of social reproduction, generating material deprivation, job strain, fatalism, increased domestic workload, anomie, community disintegration, and alienation. These ruptures in social reproduction are sources of psychosocial stress, through which deindustrialization gets embodied as ill health and dysfunctional health behavior. We substantiate this framework through the extensive qualitative thematic analysis of 82 life history interviews in Hungary’s rust belt.

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Fringe Benefits: A Review Essay on the American Workplace

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Employers as landlords for rural-to-urban migrants in Chinese cities

Employers as landlords for rural-to-urban migrants in Chinese cities

State policies that promote, and that inhibit, improved public health: An exploratory analysis of paid sick leave

Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach

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