Skill and Occupational Change (Social Change & Economic Life Initiative)

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In this major new book leading sociologists, economists, and social psychologists present their highly original research into changes in jobs in Britain in the 1980s. Combining large-scale sample surveys, personal life-histories, and case studies of towns, employers, and worker groups, their findings give clear and often surprising answers to questions debated by social and economic observers in all advanced countries. Does technolgoy destroy skills or rebuild them? how does skill affect the attitudes of employees and their managers towards their jobs? Are women gaining greater skill equality with men, or are they still stuck on the lower rungs of the skill and occupational ladders? The…

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 382
Size: 4.70" wide x 7.30" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.946



Foreword


Acknowledgements


Contributors



Introduction: The Sceli Skill Findings


Notes



Patterns of Skill Change



Patterns of Skill Change: Upskilling, Deskilling, or Polarization?


Conclusion


Notes



Occupational Change in a Working-Life Perspective: Internal and External Views


Summary


Notes



Technical Change and Skilled Manual Work in Contemporary Rochdale



Technical Change and the Division of Labour in Rochdale and Aberdeen



Subjective Dimensions of Skill



Subjective Dimensions of Skill


Notes


Notes


Appendix 6.2


Appendix 6.3



Gender and Skills



Towards a Phenomenology of Skill Brian Francis and Roger Penn


Conclusions


Appendix 8.1 Responses to the Question 'What Do You Think is Meant by the Term "Skilled Job"?'



Job Satisfaction, Job Skills, and Personal Skills


Notes


Appendix 9.1



Skill and Samuel Smiles: Changing the British Work Ethic


In Conclusion


Notes


Appendix 10.1 Measures of Work Values


Methodological Appendix the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative



Introduction


Bibliography


Index