This study argues that the increase in middle management in recent decades was accompanied by a shift in managerial roles. Increased task complexity and a new management philosophy have reduced the need for direct supervision but generated a greater demand for collaboration, leading to the emergence of a managerial class whose primary role is collaboration not supervision. The author analyzed a large volume of data to generate three sets of findings: (1) The expectations of the managerial role have quickly changed, in almost all sectors, to emphasize more collaboration and less supervision (2) This new managerial role is especially concentrated in innovation-focused firms. (3) Firms treating managers as collaborators have a higher proportion of middle managers than those still treating them primarily as supervisors. These findings suggest that the role of managers has fundamentally shifted and that accounting for changing managerial roles could explain a significant portion of the managerial growth.
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Previous articleNext article Book ReviewRituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. By Crystal Nicole Eddins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii+355. $29.99 (paper).Alexandre WhiteAlexandre WhiteJohns Hopkins University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725725 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
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{"title":":<i>You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy</i>","authors":"Joe LaBriola","doi":"10.1086/726176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rob J. Gruijters, Zachary Van Winkle, Anette E. Fasang
Millennials are often assumed to be economically worse off than previous generations because of more precarious employment and unstable family lives. Using sequence analysis and unconditional quantile decomposition, we analyze the work and family trajectories of late baby boomers and early millennials and relate them to wealth holdings at age 35. We find that the poorest millennials have less wealth than their baby boomer counterparts, but the wealthiest millennials have more. Millennials are less likely to enter high-status occupations and are more likely to work in low-skilled service jobs, and family trajectories show a strong decline of traditional early marriage and parenthood; however, changes in life course trajectories cannot account for the increase in wealth inequality. Instead, the distribution of wealth has become more unequal because the economic returns to typical middle-class trajectories have increased, while the returns to typical working-class trajectories have stagnated or declined.
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{"title":":<i>Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment</i>","authors":"Brian Tuohy","doi":"10.1086/725657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725657","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Kretschmer, Johanna Gereke, Fabian Winter, Nan Zhang
conserve space for the publication of original contributions to schol-arship, the comments in this section must be limited to brief critiques; author replies must be concise as well. Comments are expected to address speci fi c substantive errors or fl aws in articles published in AJS . They are subject to editorial board approval and peer review. Only succinct and substantive commentary will be considered; longer or less focused papers should be submitted as articles in their own right. AJS does not publish rebuttals to author replies.
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Sanne Smith, Frank van Tubergen, Ineke Maas, Daniel A. McFarland
{"title":"When ERGMs Lead to Biased Samples: Reply to Kretschmer et al.","authors":"Sanne Smith, Frank van Tubergen, Ineke Maas, Daniel A. McFarland","doi":"10.1086/727858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Previous articleNext article Book ReviewGetting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South. By Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xix+301. $27.95.Alison Hope AlkonAlison Hope AlkonUniversity of the Pacific Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725105 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
{"title":":<i>Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South</i>","authors":"Alison Hope Alkon","doi":"10.1086/725105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725105","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article Book ReviewGetting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South. By Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xix+301. $27.95.Alison Hope AlkonAlison Hope AlkonUniversity of the Pacific Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725105 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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