Relational Inequalities

<p>Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. <em>Relational Inequalities </em>develops 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 model and to challenge troubling inequalities.</p>