Introduction / Michael J. Piore
Part one. Wage rigidities, employment opportunities, and labor market stratification : an overview
Unemployment and inflation : an alternative view / Michael J. Piore
A job competition model / Lester C. Thurow
The labor market in post-Keynesian theory / Eileen Appelbaum
Is there a Phillips curve? / David Wheeler
Part two. The wage structure and wage inflation
(A) Rigidities in the wage structure : early formulations
Wage contours / John T. Dunlop
Job clusters / E. Robert Livernash
Orbits of coercive comparison / Arthur M. Ross
(B) Rigidities in the wage structure : recent formulations
Pattern bargaining, wage determination, and inflation : some preliminary observations on the 1976-78 wage round / Clint Bourdon
Fragments of a "sociological" theory of wages ; Pricing rules / Michael J. Piore
Part three. Labor market structure
Why the U.S. unemployment rate is so high / Roger Kaufman
Marginal workers in industrial society / Charles F. Sabel
The structure of the labor market for young men / Paul Osterman
Wage determination in low-wage labor markets and the role of minimum-wage legislation ; Foreign workers / Michael J. Piore
Work and welfare / Bennett Harrison.