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Organizations Are The Dominant Social Invention For Generating Resources And Distributing Them. Relational Inequalities Develops A General Sociological And Organizational Analysis Of Inequality, Exploring The Processes That Generate Inequalities In Access To Respect, Resources, And Rewards. Framing Their Analysis Through A Relational Account Of Social And Economic Life, Donald Tomaskovic-devey And Dustin Avent-holt Explain How Resources Are Generated And Distributed Both Within And Between Organizations. They Show That Inequalities Are Produced Through Generic Processes That Occur In All Social Relationships: Categorization And Their Resulting Status Hierarchies, Organizational Resource Pooling, Exploitation, Social Closure, And Claims-making. Drawing On A Wide Range Of Case Studies, Tomaskovic-devey And Avent-holt Focus On The Workplace As The Primary Organization For Generating Inequality And Provide A Series Of Global Goals To Advance Both A Comparative Organizational Research Model And To Challenge Troubling Inequalities.