Hisclass: A Historical International Social Class Scheme

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Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2011 - History - 181 pages

Social class schemes, contemporary as well as historical, are always somewhat mysterious. While the authors of this book do not claim to have solved that mystery completely, they do shed significant light on it. Unlike previous historical schemes, HISCLASS is international, created for the purpose of making comparisons across different periods, countries, and languages. Furthermore, it is linked to an international standard classification scheme for occupations--HISCO.

The chapters in the book show how historical occupational titles classified in HISCO can form the building blocks of a social class scheme for past populations. The dimensions underlying classes are discussed. How, for instance, can manual work be distinguished from nonmanual work? Skilled from nonskilled? And what did "supervision" really mean? A rich source of detailed occupational information is used to measure those dimensions. The result is an instrument that can be used to systematically compare social class positions, distilled from a dazzling variety of occupational titles, around the world and over a range of periods.

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Contents

List of tables
7
Dictionary of Occupational Titles DOT
29
1
47
7
53
Validation
61
Conclusion
77
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

9 HISCO according to DOT Aircraft Aptitudes Bouchard Building Insulator century class dimensions clerical and sales Clerk Construction Dictionary of Occupational DOT characteristics DOT group DOT-based Driller Oil Driver economic sector Electrical end code Engineering Technician example expert validation experts agreed Faith Healer Farm Worker 12 Farmer Fitter Fitter-Assembler Foreman Furnaceman Gérard Bouchard Goldthorpe Hand or Machine Henrik Bull HISCO and DOT HISCO groups HISCO Label HISCLASS HISCO occupational groups historians labour linked Machine Operator Machinery majority Maker 9 Maker Hand Manager manual and non-manual Mechanic Metal Moulder Non-Commissioned Officer non-manual occupation is mentioned occupational titles Officer Operator 9 paper Physical Demands Pottery and Porcelain primary sector Private Service procedure Production Proprietor Related Workers Retail Trade rules sales personnel Setter Setter-Operator skill level social class scheme Specialisation Unknown status supervision Supervisor Table Theatrical Producer unit group University Press Unknown 9 unskilled Waste Collector Workers 9

Bibliographic information

TitleHisclass: A Historical International Social Class Scheme
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorsMarco H. D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas
PublisherUniversitaire Pers Leuven, 2011
ISBN9058678571, 9789058678577
Length181 pages
Subjects › 

History / Historiography
Reference / Encyclopedias
Reference / Research
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
  
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