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The Legalization of the Workplace
Abstract
This study uses longitudinal data on nearly 300 American employmers over the period 1955-85 to analyze the adoption of disciplinary hearings and grievance procedures for nonunion salaried and hourly emplyees. Hypotheses are developed from an institutional perspective that focuses, first, on uncertainty arisin from government mandates concerning equal employment opportunity and affirmative action and, second, on the role of the human relations professsions in constructing employment-relations law and prescribing models of compliance. Event-history techniques are used to test these hypotheses against competing arguments concerning the internatural structure and labor market position of employing organizations. Results on all outcomes strongly support the institutionalist model.
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- Authors
- Sutton, J. R., Dobbin, F., Meyer, J. W., & Scott, W. R.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1994-01
- Volume
- 99
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 944-971
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
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- W2103021029
- Cited by
- 388
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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