IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ilrrev/v37y1984i3p386-402.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Accounting for Labors Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry

Author

Listed:
  • Arne L. Kalleberg
  • Michael Wallace
  • Lawrence E. Raffalovich

Abstract

This study investigates the distribution of income between capital and labor in the printing and publishing industry. The authors first compare a variety of conceptualizations and operational measures of labor's share and then estimate models for the period 1946 – 78 that explain the movements in several share measures on the basis of variables that represent the differential power of labor and capital. Their findings indicate that worker power (particularly the extent of unionism and sometimes strike frequency) increased labor's share, especially in the 1946 – 62 period, whereas employer power (asset size and capital intensity) decreased it.

Suggested Citation

  • Arne L. Kalleberg & Michael Wallace & Lawrence E. Raffalovich, 1984. "Accounting for Labors Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 37(3), pages 386-402, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:37:y:1984:i:3:p:386-402
    DOI: 10.1177/001979398403700305
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001979398403700305
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/001979398403700305?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Thomas Volscho, Jr., 2004. "Income Distribution in 14 OECD Nations, 1967-2000: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study," LIS Working papers 386, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:37:y:1984:i:3:p:386-402. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.