Skilled Workers in the Class Structure - Brossura

Penn, Roger

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521128498 ISBN 13: 9780521128490

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

This book reinterprets the British class structure and its evolution from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s.

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Descrizione del libro

This book reinterprets the British class structure and its evolution from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1980s. The book's primary focus is on the relationship between skilled and non-skilled manual workers and examines trade unions, development of earnings differentials and class inter-marriage.

Contenuti

List of tables, diagrams and models; Acknowledgements; Part I. Debates and Definitions: 1. Orientations to the analysis of class in Britain; 2. The traditional working class; 3. The labour aristocracy; 4. Theoretical orientations to skill; 5. Aspects of the social structure of Rochdale, 1856–1964; Part II. The Economic Structuration of Class: 6. The trade union structure in the Rochdale cotton and engineering industries; 7. The course of wage differentials in Rochdale during the period 1856–1964; 8. Skilled manual workers in the labour process; Part III. The Social Structuration of Class: 9. Classes, strata and occupations; 10. Class analysis and marital endogamy; 11. Intermarriage in Rochdale: class endogamy of brides and grooms; 12. Intermarriage in Rochdale: class endogamy of fathers of brides and fathers of grooms; 13. Skilled manual workers in the British class structure; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521128498
• ISBN 13: 9780521128490
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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