Resources

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

PlaySpent
Two Monkeys are Paid Unequally
ProjectFAIR Case Studies
Gender, Diversity & Organizations (PowerPoint), Prepared by Dr. Sam Paustian-Underdahl
“There Is No Gender Wage Gap” in PragerU Podcasts.
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of inequality
Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion & Collusion, TEDx talk by Dr. Helen Turnbull

RECENT POPULAR PRESS ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, AND RESEARCH SUMMARIES

Interview with Tom Kochan, Sirius XM
The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest, Harvard Gazette, 2016 (February). By Christina Pazzanese
HARVARDgazette. Topic Series on Inequality
'The Color Of Law' Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation, National Public Radio, 2017 (May). Heard on All Things Considered. A fascinating (and sad) account of US federal housing policy and its contribution to racial wealth inequality.
What to know before using school ratings tools from real estate companies, Washington Post, 2017 (June). By Valerie Strauss
The Big Reason Whites Are Richer Than Blacks in America, Bloomberg, 2017 (February). By Peter Coy
Income Inequality Makes Whole Countries Less Happy, Harvard Business Review, 2016 (January). By Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee
Americans Have No Idea How Bad Inequality Really Is, MoneyBox, 2014 (September). By Jordan Weissman
Research Summary on Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality, By Raj Chetty (Stanford University)
Summary Reading List on Global Inequality by Dan Weltmann (Rutgers)
ProjectFair. McWha-Hermann, I., Jandric, J., Wakefield, S., Carr, S.C., Grund, C., and Moutou, M. (2017). Project FAIR: Exploring practical pathways for reward fairness in international NGOs. Edinburgh, UK: University of Edinburgh.
Martin Evans (2015). Inequality and social mobility: Facts and perceptions.
Martin Evans (2015). What do we know about social mobility ?

RECENT EDITORIALS

Wage inequality continued its 35-year rise in 2015, Economic Policy Institute
Wage inequality in the United States - Statistics & Facts, Statistica
Gender wage inequality, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Get This: Wage Inequality Is Falling, New York Times
U.S. Income Inequality Hits a Disturbing New Threshold, Bloomberg
A New Year’s resolution to address wage inequality in firms, Brookings Institute
The State of Wage Inequality in the Workplace, Hired.com

POPULAR PRESS BOOKS

DiTomaso, N. (2013). The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism. Russell Sage Foundation: New York, NY.
Frankfurt, H. G. (2015). On Inequality. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.
Picketty, T. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Presidents and Fellows at Harvard College.
Turnbull, Helen. (2016). The Illusion of Inclusion. Business Expert Press.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Journal of Management Studies special issue on Social and Economic Inequality: Origins, Consequences, and Implications for Business and Society (May 2018)
Alamgir, F., & Cairns, G. (2015). Economic inequality of the badli workers of Bangladesh: Contested entitlements and a ‘perpetually temporary’ life-world. Human Relations, 68(7), 1131-1153.
Alon, S., & Haberfeld, Y. (2007). Labor Force Attachment and the Evolving Wage Gap Between White, Black, and Hispanic Young Women. Work & Occupations, 34(4), 369-398.
Arnold, D. H., & Doctoroff, G. L. (2003). The Early Education of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 517.
Bapuji, H. (2015). Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations. Human Relations, 68(7), 1059-1083.
Barrett, R. (2006). Language ideology and racial inequality: Competing functions of Spanish in an Anglo-owned Mexican restaurant. Language in Society, 35, 163-204.
Bidwell, M., Briscoe, F., Fernandez-Mateo, I., & Sterling, A. (2013). The Employment Relationship and Inequality: How and Why Changes in Employment Practices are Reshaping Rewards in Organizations. The Academy of Management Annals, 7(1), 61-121.
Crane, A. (2012). Modern slavery as a management practice: Exploring conditions and capabilities for human exploitation. Academy of Management Review.
Côté, S. (2011). How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 31(0), 43-71.
Duncan, G. J., Yeung, W. J., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Smith, J. R. (1998). How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children? American Sociological Review, 63(3), 406-423.
Edwards, P. K. (2015). Introductory note. Human Relations, 68(7), 1055-1057.
Evans, G. W. (2004). The Environment of Childhood Poverty. American Psychologist, 59(2), 77-92.
Gray, B., & Kish-Gephart, J. J. (2013). Encountering Social Class Differences at Work: How “Class Work” Perpetuates Inequality. Academy of Management Review, 38(4), 670-699.
Hahn, R. (2009). The Ethical Rational of Business for the Poor – Integrating the Concepts Bottom of the Pyramid, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Citizenship. Journal of Business Ethics, 84(3), 313-324.
Hamilton, D., Goldsmith, A. H., & Darity, W., Jr. (2008). Measuring the wage costs of limited English: Issues with using interviewer versus self-reports in determining Latino wages. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 30(3), 257-279.
Huffman, M. L., & Torres, L. (2001). Job Search Methods: Consequences for Gender-Based Earnings Inequality. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 58(1), 127-141.
Kistruck, G. M., Sutter, C. J., Lount, R. B., & Smith, B. R. (2013). Mitigating Principal-Agent Problems in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: An Identity Spillover Perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 56(3), 659-682.
Konrad, A. M., Yang, Y., & Maurer, C. C. (2016). Antecedents and outcomes of diversity and equality management systems: an integrated institutional agency and strategic human resource management approach. Human Resource Management, 55(1), 83-107.
Larsen, C. A. (2016). How three narratives of modernity justify economic inequality. Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.), 59(2), 93-111.
MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T., Webster, C., & Simpson, D. (2005). Growing Up in Poor Neighbourhoods: The Significance of Class and Place in the Extended Transitions of 'Socially Excluded' Young Adults. Sociology, 39(5), 873-891.
Maitner, A. T. (2015). Emotional reactions to unequal payment: The impact of meritocratic ideology and salary negotiability. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(2), 153-172.
Martin, S. R., Côté, S., & Woodruff, T. (2016). Echoes of Our Upbringing: How Growing Up Wealthy or Poor Relates to Narcissism, Leader Behavior, and Leader Effectiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 59, 1880-1895
Meuris, J., & Leana, C. R. (2015). The high cost of low wages: Economic scarcity effects in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 35, 143-158.
Noonan, A. E., Hall, G., & Blustein, D. L. (2007). Urban adolescents' experience of social class in relationships at work. Journal of vocational behavior, 70(3), 542-560.
Parboteeah, K. P., & Cullen, J. B. (2003). Social Institutions and Work Centrality: Explorations Beyond National Culture. Organization Science, 14(2), 137-148.
Pearce, J. L. (2005). Organizational Scholarship and the Eradication of Global Poverty. Academy of Management Journal, 48(6), 970-972.
Riaz, S. (2015). Bringing inequality back in: The economic inequality footprint of management and organizational practices. Human Relations, 68(7), 1085-1097.
Rosenblatt, V. (2012). Hierarchies, Power Inequalities, and Organizational Corruption. Journal of Business Ethics, 111(2), 237-251.
Schneider, J. A. (2000). Pathways to opportunity: The role of race, social networks, institutions, and neighborhood in. Human Organization, 59(1), 72.
Shin, H. (2008). A New Insight into Urban Poverty: The Culture of Capability Poverty amongst Korean Immigrant Women in Los Angeles. Urban Studies (Sage), 45(4), 871-896.
Shrivastava, P., & Ivanova, O. (2015). Inequality, corporate legitimacy and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Human Relations, 68(7), 1209-1231.
Soylu, S., & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2015). Asymmetric intergroup bullying: The enactment and maintenance of societal inequality at work. Human Relations, 68(7), 1099-1129.
Trevor, C. O., Reilly, G., & Gerhart, B. (2012). Reconsidering Pay Dispersion's Effect on the Performance of Interdependent Work: Reconciling Sorting and Pay Inequality. Academy of Management Journal, 55(3), 585-610.
Turkheimer, E., Haley, A., Waldron, M., D'Onofrio, B., & Gottesman, I. I. (2003). Socioeconomic status modifies heritability of IQ in young children. Psychological Science, 14(6), 623-628.
Xavier-Oliveira, E., Laplume, A. O., & Pathak, S. (2015). What motivates entrepreneurial entry under economic inequality? The role of human and financial capital. Human Relations, 68(7), 1183-1207.