What's in a Wage: Minimum Wage Increases and Workplace Hierarchies in the Restaurant Industry
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What's in a Wage: Minimum Wage Increases and Workplace Hierarchies in the Restaurant Industry
Yazar:
Knudsen, Marcel L., author.
ISBN:
9780438116757
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1 electronic resource (252 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Leslie McCall; Robert Nelson Committee members: Laura B. Nelson; Nik Theodore.
Özet:
This dissertation uses minimum wage increases to examine the meaning of wages in the context of the U.S. restaurant industry, focusing on outcomes in two cites: Chicago and Oakland. In 2015, Chicago and Oakland both enacted two of the largest minimum wage increases of any major cities, from $8.25 to $10.00 and from $9.00 to $12.25, respectively. Adopting insights from economic sociology, theories of organizations, the sociology of work, and labor economics, I draw on these cases to argue that minimum wage increases reveal the embeddedness of wages and wage hierarchies within organizations. In contrast to expectations from the literature that businesses would seek to minimize their labor costs under these new policies, I find that restaurants enacted substantial non-mandated raises for most of their workers, raising them above new minimum wage levels. I argue that these "ripple effects" reflect the maintenance of wage hierarches that are central to workplace management in restaurants and other small businesses.
This dissertation uses a systematic sample of restaurant owners, managers, and workers in Chicago and Oakland restaurants, drawn 3 to 6 months after minimum wage increases, to assess how businesses respond to these policies. Semi-structured interviews with the respondents in this sample reveal both organizational structures and dynamics of change at a range of restaurants. In addition, analyses of Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics data describe the durable inequalities of the restaurant industry. Building on economic studies of minimum wage increases that find these policies to have positive or null effects on local economies, this work demonstrates that restaurants were able to effectively adapt to the higher labor costs imposed by raises. However, even as minimum wage increases addressed broader inequalities between industries, they did not mitigate existing inequalities in the industry deriving from job segregation by race and gender. By comparing these two cities, I demonstrate how the particulars of local institutions and policies shape the outcomes of minimum wage increases. This work highlights policy considerations for crafting minimum wage legislation to alleviate, rather than exacerbate, inequality.
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School code: 0163
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