Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations

The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America

Solidarity through shared disadvantage: Highlighting shared experiences of discrimination improves relations between stigmatized groups.

Intergroup relations research has largely focused on relations between members of dominant groups and members of disadvantaged groups. The small body of work examining intraminority intergroup relations, or relations between members of different disadvantaged groups, reveals that salient experiences of ingroup discrimination promote positive relations between groups that share a dimension of id...

International Labour Organisation Act/emp Publications Industrial Relations and Globalization: Challenges for Employers and Their Organizations

1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Industrial Relations (IR) in the Global Context (a) IR-a definition (b) IR and HRM (c) Liberalization, globalization and IR (i) Overview (ii) The relevance of globalization to industrial relations-a summary (iii) The role of multinational corporations (MNC's) (iv) Information technology and IR (v) The impact of other trends (d) The changing nature of IR-a...

No 1328 February 2015 Schooling , Nation Building and Industrialization : A Gellnerian Approach

We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified schooling") renders the masses ...

Evaluation of the UNREST questionnaire for testing the social resistance framework.

BACKGROUND The recently developed social resistance framework addresses a widespread pattern whereby non-dominant minority groups, such as ethnic/racial minorities and people of low socioeconomic status, often engage in unhealthy and risky behaviours at higher rates compared with society at large. The framework suggests that power relations within society may encourage members of non-dominant m...