The shareholder value society: A review of the changes in working conditions and inequality in the U.S., 1976-2000 - eScholarship

The Shareholder Value Society: A Review of the Changes in Working Conditions and Inequality in the U.S. 1976-2000 Neil Fligstein and Taek-Jin Shin Department of Sociology University of California Berkeley, Ca. 94720 This paper was prepared for the project entitled The Study of the New Inequalities at Work which was supported by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. I would like to thank Henry Brady, David Card, Mike Hout, and Steve Raphael for their comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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