The Theory of the Split Labor Market: A Comparison of the Japanese Experience in Brazil and Canada

Social Forces ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Makabe
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Japanese Experience ◽  
Split Labor Market

The Split Labor Market and the Origins of Antidrug Legislation in the United States

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 411-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Auerhahn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Theoretical Formulation ◽  
Market Dynamic ◽  
Paid Labor ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics ◽  
Split Labor Market

Edna Bonacich's (1972) theoretical formulation of Split labor market dynamics as underlying the content and process of ethnic antagonism is expanded and applied to an historical analysis of the development of antidrug laws in the United States. The campaigns and resultant legislation against opium, cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana are subjected to a split labor market analysis that incorporates the notion of moral panics and an understanding of the ways in which law may be used as a “weapon” in the furtherance of class interests. The article concludes that each of these campaigns came about as the result of an underlying split labor market dynamic and adds to Bonacich's original formulation the response of criminalization of the threatening labor group by the higher-paid labor group.

The Tenant Labor Market and Lynching in the South: A Test of Split Labor Market Theory

1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Corzine ◽  
Lin Huff-Corzine ◽  
James C. Creech
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The South ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Split Labor Market

Expanding the Split Labor Market Theory: Between and Within Sectors of the Split Labor Market of Mandatory Palestine

1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah S. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Past History ◽  
Relative Advantage ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Mandatory Rule ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Advantageous Position ◽  
First World ◽  
Split Labor Market

Palestine, under British mandatory rule since the end of the First World War, was an arena of confrontation between Arabs and Jews over land, immigration, and political power, as well as over place and position in the labor market. This article will deal with the split labor market of mandatoryPalestineand the actors within it. The analysis will make use of the split labormarket theory of Edna Bonacich. In her theory she posits a situation in whichtwo groups of labor, belonging to different ethnic and national origins, meet in the same labor market. The more advantageous ethnic group has been able, due to its past history and its more advantageous position within world capitalist development, to ensure a higher value for its labor but considers itself threatened by the presence of the less advantageous groups, whose labor has lower value and thus greater attraction to employers who aim to maximize their profits. The theory then goes on to develop the different ways in which cheaper labor might serve to displace and substitute higher-priced labor and the strategies pursued by the latter in recurring attempts to maintain its relative advantage.

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