You’re Paid What You’re Worth

“This is the book to throw at your human resources director-not literally, of course-when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made…It is a closely argued, thoroughly researched treatise on how we got here and how pay could be both fairer and more effective as a reward.”-Stefan Stern, Financial World“A flat-out revelation of a book by one of the nation’s top scholars of the labor market…required reading for anyone who cares about the future of work in America.”-Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America“Jake Rosenfeld pulls back the curtain on the multifaceted cultural, institutional, and market forces at play in wage-setting.This timely book illuminates the power dynamics and often arbitrary forces that have contributed to the egregious inequality in the U.S. labor market-and then lays out a clear blueprint for progressive change.”-Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy InstituteJob performance and where you work play a role in determ