Low-Wage Job Growth, Polarization, and the Limits and Opportunities of the Service Economy

Rachel E. Dwyer; Erik Olin Wright

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.02

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 4 56-76

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.02

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online September 1, 2019.

© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Dwyer, Rachel E., and Erik Olin Wright. 2019. “Low-Wage Job Growth, Polarization, and the Limits and Opportunities of the Service Economy.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(4): 56–76. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.02. Acknowledgment from Rachel E. Dwyer: Erik Olin Wright passed away on January 23, 2019, only ten months after being diagnosed with an aggressive strain of acute myeloid leukemia. It was one of the great privileges of my life to learn from and collaborate with him. We conducted a long-running collaboration on job structure in the United States, for which I am deeply grateful now, most of all because of the time I was so lucky to share with him while working on it. This project was coming to fruition in several articles when the Russell Sage Foundation journal call came out. Erik was delighted by its inclusion in this issue, in particular because the issue was coedited by Arne Kalleberg, his comrade in research on economic inequality. To learn more about Erik’s extraordinary life and work, please see remembrances at: https://thelifeandworkoferikolinwright.wordpress.com/. Direct correspondence to: Rachel Dwyer at dwyer.46@osu.edu, 238 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43085. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Rachel E. Dwyer^a and
Erik Olin Wright^b

^aProfessor of sociology at Ohio State University
^bVilas Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and director of the A.E. Havens Center for Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison