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PIORE, Michael J. was born in 1940 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
(Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migra...)
Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.
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(Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migra...)
Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.
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The Reagan and Bush years have left us with a troublesome dilemma: how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of economic crisis and constraint, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nation's neglected poor, infirm, and disadvantaged, old and young. Michael Piore's ambitious response is to develop a new social theory that balances individual preferences against the claims and responsibilities of the community. By explaining the role of groups in economic and social life, this theory makes sense of a host of perplexing social phenomena and policy issues, from equal employment opportunity to international competitiveness to the decline of organized labor, from multicultural education to health insurance to the underclass. Piore traces our difficulties in addressing these issues to the limits of liberal social theory, particularly its sharp distinctions between individuality and community. He offers an alternative view of individuality as emerging through the discussions and debates conducted among a community's members. These discussions, Piore suggests, have turned inward, away from the borderlands where social groups and economic organizations meet--and therein lies the crux of some of the country's deepest political and economic problems. His book points beyond the liberal conception of politics as a negotiation among competing interests and of policymaking as technical decisionmaking. Instead, it prescribes a politics focused on the process of discussion and debate itself, a politics that enlarges the borderlands by broadening the range of people who talk to one another and the range of topics they address.
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Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.
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Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.
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PIORE, Michael J. was born in 1940 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Harvard University, 1966.
Assistant professor labor economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966-1970, associate professor, 1970-1975, professor economics, since 1975, Mitsui professor of Comtemporary Technology, 1981-1986. David W. Skinner professor political economy, since 1991. Consultant National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., 1966-1968, Boston Model Cities Administration, 1960, Department Labor, 1968-1970, Labor, Manpower and Income Maintenance, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 1970-1972, research coordinator, acting executive director, 1970-1971, consultant, 1977-1986.
Member National Manpower Policy Task Force Associates, 1968-1970. Member National Council on Employment Policy, 1977-1979. Consultant vice president task force on youth employment.
Member governor board Institute for Labour Studies, International Labour Organization, since 1990.
( Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of it...)
( Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of it...)
( The Reagan and Bush years have left us with a troubles...)
(Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migra...)
(Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migra...)
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Author: Birds of Passage, Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies, 1979, Beyond Individualism, 1995, (with B. Doeringer) Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Adjustment, 1981, (with Charles Sabel) The Second Industrial Divide, 1984. Editor: Unemployment and Inflation: Institutionalist and Structuralist Views, 1979, (with Thomas Kochen and Richard Locke) Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy. Contributor articles to professional journals and publications.
My work has focussed upon the role of institutions, technology and social processes in the structure and evolution of the labour market. It is distinguished from conventional neoclassical labour economics in that it attempts to understand the economy as embedded in the society, and economic structures as the outgrowth of historical processes. I have been influential in the development of several key labour market concepts, notably the notion of the ‘internal labour market’ (with Peter.
B. Doeringer), the dual labour market hypothesis (with Peter B. Doeringer, David Gordon, Michael Reich and Richard Edwards), and flexible specialisation (with Charles Sabel). My most recent work with Charles Sabel attempts to understand the relationship between technology, institutional structure and macroeconomic performance. It draws heavily upon French ‘théorie de la regulation’.
It attaches to that theory an explicit but nondeterministic theory of
technological development, emphasising the alternatives of mass and craft production, and works out its implications for an understanding of the historical evolution of the American economic structure.
Member American Economic Association (executive committee 1991-1994), Industrial Relations Research Association Union of Radical Political Economists.