Employers use wage differentials to reduce worker solidarity

Evidence

In an economy of alienated work, the major inducement to the attainment of credentials and ability to exercise responsibility is pay. In part, wage differences in the enterprise flow from the employer’s need to legitimate the authority structure and reduce worker solidarity by creating and maintaining different conditions of work and styles of life for different groups of workers. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 882

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Employers exploit society’s broader prejudices as a free labor-control resource — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 916; Soviet wage differentials and competition destroyed working-class solidarity; Employers deliberately mixed immigrant nationalities to prevent worker solidarity — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 672

Broader Connections

• Employers deliberately mixed immigrant nationalities to prevent worker solidarity #exemplifies (0.92) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 672
• Soviet wage differentials and competition destroyed working-class solidarity #exemplifies (0.90)
• Employers exploit society’s broader prejudices as a free labor-control resource #expands (0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 916