Michael Piore

Papers

Keynes and Marx, Duncan and Me
M Piore
Prepared for Critical Economic Theory: Essays Inspired by Duncan Foley
August, 2011

Whither Industrial Relations: Does It Have a Future in Post-Industrial Society
M. Piore
Prepared for Presentation at British Journal of Industrial Relations Annual Lecture 2010, London, United Kingdom, November 18, 2010, revised July, 2011

Sociology, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and the Management of the Public Sector
M. Piore
January, 2009, this version December 2010
Prepared for Presentation at at the Workshop on: Sociological Citizens: Solving Problems and Creating Possibilities in Markets, Management, and Regulation, MIT

Post-2008 Crisis in Labor Standards: Prospects for Labor Regulation Around the World
M. Piore
Prepared for Presentation at Fundacion Jose Ortega y Gasset Madrid, Spain, October 14, 2010

Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation
M. Piore
Prepared for Presentation at: “The Idea of Labour Law” International Workshop
Cambridge, UK, April, 2010, This version September, 2010

From Bounded Rationality to Behavioral Economics
M. Piore
forthcoming in Socio-Economic Review

The Economic Crisis and the Neoliberal Legacy in the United States
M. Piore
Prepared for Presentation at: Séminaire International "Dimensions sociopolitiques et économiques de la crise dans les pays émergents" Mexico City, Mexico, November 12, 2009

A Turning Point in American Politics and in Economic and Social Policy: The Lessons of the Conventionalist School
M. Piore
Prepared for Presentatioin at Colloque de Cerisy, Conventions: l’Intersubjectif et la Normative, Cerisy, France, September, 2009

Toward the Inspeccion de Trabajo as an Instrument of Economic Growth, Development and Efficiency
M. Piore
Prepared for: United Nations Development Program
June 2009

AIG, Executive Compensation, and the Moral Foundations of Capitalism
M. Piore
April, 2009

Second Thoughts: On Economics, Sociology, Neoliberalism, Polanyi’s Double Movement and Intellectual Vacuums
M. Piore
Presidential Address to the Annual Meetings of the Society for Advancement for Socio-Economics, (SASE), San Juan, Costa Rica, July 22, 2008

Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Industrial Districts
M. Piore
Forthcoming in G. Becattini, M. Bellandi and L. De Propris (Eds.) The Handbook of Industrial Districts. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008.

Toward Managed Flexibility: The Revival of Labor Inspection in the Latin World
M. Piore and A. Schrank
Forthcoming in International Labour Review, 2008

Revitalizing Industrial Relations
M. Piore
Forthcoming in Whalen, Charles J., New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.

A Critical View of Schumpeter’s ‘Theory’ of Innovation
M. Piore
September, 2007
Prepared for Presentation at Conference on Capitalism and Entrepreneurship, Cornell University

Norms, regulations, and labor standards in Central America
M. Piore and A. Schrank
February 2007, published in: CEPAL - Serie Estudios y Perspectivas No. 77, February, 2007

Preliminary Thoughts on Identity and Segmentation in Primary Sector Labor Markets
M. Piore and S. Safford
June 2006, Prepared for Presentation at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meetings, Trier, Germany, 7-2-06

Review: Ruth Milkman LA Story
M. Piore
Prepublication version: Published in Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 5(2), p. 369, 2007.

Trading Up: An embryonic model for easing the human costs of free markets
M. Piore and A. Schrank
September 2006, Boston Review, Sept/Oct, Vol. 31 (5), pp. 11-1

Latin America: Revolution or Regulation?
M. Piore and A. Schrank
April 2006, Published in Boston Review, see above

Changing Regimes of Workplace Governance, Shifting Axes of Social Mobilization and the Challenge to Industrial Relations Theory
M. Piore and S. Safford
March 2006, Prepublication version. Published in: Industrial Relations, 45(3), pp. 299-325, 2006

Looking for Flexible Workplace Regulation in Latin America and the United States
M. Piore
November 2005, Prepared for Presentation at "Labour Standards Application: A Compared Perspective", Buenos Aries, Argentina, Nov 28-30, 2005

En busca de un sistema de regulación laboral flexible en Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos
M. Piore
November 2005, Trabajo preparado para ser presentado en el Seminario:"Aplicación de Normas Laborales: una perspectiva comparada," Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 28-30, 2005

Qualitative Research: Does it fit in economics?
M. Piore
December 2005. Published in European Management Review, vol. 3 (1), pp. 17-23, 2006; also in Curren, Sara and Ellen Perecman (Eds.) Handbook for Social Science: Field Research Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.

Shifting Axis of Labor Market Regulation and Social Mobilization in the United States: Reinterpreting the American experience at the turn of the 21st century
M. Piore and S. Safford
October 2004, Prepared for 32nd Congress of the German Sociological Association, Munich Germany

Industrial Upgrading and the Administration of Labor Standards:An Approach to Formality, Informality and Poverty in an Open Economy
M. Piore
October 2004, Prepared for "El Reto de la Informalidad y la Pobreza Moderada" Seminar, IBERGOP, FLASCO, Mexico City

Rethinking Mexico’s Labor Standards in a Global Economy
M. Piore
August 2004, Prepared for MIT-Mexico meetings in Mexico City; published in Comercio Exterior, 55(2), Feb., 2005, pp. 140-147.

Economy, Society, and Worker Representation in Corporate Governance
M. Piore
February 2004, forthcoming in "Corporate Governance and Firm Organization", A. Grandori, Ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 2004

The Limits of the Division of Labor in Design and the Prospects for Off-shore Software Development in Mexico
M. Piore
February 2004, Prepared for "The Software Industry in the Developing World Workshop" Yale University

Stability and Flexibility in the Economy: Reason and Interpretation in Economic Behavior
M. Piore
December 2003, Presented at Colloque “Conventions et Institutions”, Paris, France
published as: “Stabilité et flexibilité dans l’économie: le comportment économique entre rationalité et interprétation,” in Francoise Eymard-Duveray (Ed.) L’économie des conventions méthods et résultats. Tome 1: Débats. Paris: La Découverte, 2006, pp. 117-127.

Toward Flexible Industrial Relations Institutions
M. Piore and S. Safford
June 2003, June 2003, Presented at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meetings, Aix en Provence, France

Shifting Axes of Social Mobilization and Regimes of Workplace Governance in America
M. Piore and S. Safford
June 2003, Presented at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meetings, Aix en Provence, France

The Neo-Liberal Ideal and the Reality of Workplace Practice: Shifting Axes of Political Mobilization and New Regimes of Workplace Governance in the United States
M. Piore
May 2003, Presented at "Worlds of Capitalism: Globalization, Governance and Democracy" Hamburg, Germany

Corporate Governance and Worker Welfare
M. Piore
December 2002, Presented at Bocconi International Conference, �Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Nexuses and Frontiers" Milan, Italy

Rethinking International Labor Standards
M. Piore
March 2002, Presented at "Conference on Labor and the Globalization of Production" Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University

The Reconfiguration of Work and Employment Relations in the United States at the Turn of the Century
M. Piore
January 2002, Prepared for the ILO Symposium, "L�avenir du travail, de l�emploi et de la protection sociale", Lyon, France

Diversity in Economic Organizations: An American Perspective on the Implication of European Integration for the Economic Performance of Japan
M. Piore
October, 2000
Prepared for Presentation at 21st Century Forum: European Integration and Japan, Yokohama City University, Japan