5. The Bosses’ Boss

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. part I: questions about pay
4. 1. What Does Determine Our Pay? 3
5. 2. What Do We Think Determines Our Pay? 26
6. part II: paying for performance?
7. 3. Employers Against the Free Market 57
8. 4. Mismeasuring Performance and the Pitfalls of Paying for Merit 87
9. 5. The Bosses’ Boss 115
10. part III: paying for the job?
11. 6. When Good Jobs Go Bad 147
12. 7. Bad Jobs Can Be Good 185
13. part IV: toward a fairer wage
14. 8. Rethinking Inequality 221
15. 9. Toward a Fairer Wage 243
16. Epilogue: What Foot Soldiers Deserve 268
17. Notes 273
18. Acknowledgments 337
19. Index 341