{"product_id":"relational-inequality-an-organizational-approach-9780190624422","title":"Relational Inequality: An Organizational Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Donald Tomaskovic-Devey | Dustin Avent-Holt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Social Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. \u003cem\u003eRelational Inequalities \u003c\/em\u003edevelops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect, resources, and rewards. Framing their analysis through a relational account of social and economic life, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt explain how resources are generated and distributed both within and between organizations. They show that inequalities are produced through generic processes that occur in all social relationships: categorization and their resulting status hierarchies, organizational resource pooling, exploitation, social closure, and claims-making. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt focus on the workplace as the primary organization for generating inequality and provide a series of global goals to advance both a comparative organizational research\u003cbr\u003emodel and to challenge troubling inequalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889413603479,"sku":"9780190624422","price":10174.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190624422.webp?v=1781176352","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/relational-inequality-an-organizational-approach-9780190624422","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}