White-collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical WorkCase study examining skill obsolescence among clerical workers and nonmanual workers in the UK - explains skill analysis; examines the impact of automation and computerization on administrative work; studies sexual division of labour, employment status of woman workers and men labour mobility; discusses the growth of trade unionism and how social class influences occupational status. Bibliography, statistical tables. |
Contents
The Background | 7 |
Clerical Work and the Impact of Automation | 42 |
Men | 78 |
Copyright | |
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White-collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work Rosemary Crompton,Gareth Jones No preview available - 1984 |
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Abercrombie and Urry achieved age group agerial argued ASTMS ation attitudes bank BIFU Braverman capital capitalist cent changes chapter class places class situation class structure clerical and administrative clerical grades clerical workers Cohall and Lifeco computerisation corporatism described deskilling division of labour emphasised empirical employees employment evidence example extent factors female flextime gender Goldthorpe grade levels hierarchy human capital impact important increase individual Industrial industrial sociology interest internal labour markets interviewed labour force labour process levels of pre-entry Lockwood London majority managerial manual workers Marxist NALGO Nevertheless occupations older women organisations we studied particularly position post-entry qualifications pre-entry qualifications professional proportion recent recruited relatively service class skills social Sociology software personnel staff association Stewart strategies suggest supervisors surplus value tasks theory thesis three organisations trade unionism union membership unionists white-collar unionism white-collar workers workforce young women younger