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Skill and occupational change
- Title
- Skill and occupational change / edited by Roger Penn, Michael Rose, and Jill Rubery.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HD5717.5.G7 S55 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 365 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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 technology 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 book also takes up neglected issues (what do employees really mean by a skilled job? How does skill-change link with changes in social values?) and challenges and discredits the widely held view that new technology has de-skilled the work force.
- Skill and Occupational Change exploits the richest single data-set available in contemporary Europe and the authors exemplify many new techniques for researching skills at work: as an economic resource, as a motor of occupational change, and as a basis for personal careers and identity. It provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and carefully researched set of conclusions to date on skill trends and their implications and draws the authoritative new map of skill-change in British society.
- Series Statement
- Social change and economic life initiative
- Uniform Title
- Social change and economic life initiative
- Subject
- Geschichte 1980-1994
- Occupational mobility > Great Britain
- Skilled labor > Great Britain
- Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain
- Occupational retraining > Great Britain
- Unemployment > Great Britain
- Occupational Groups > effect of technological innovations on
- Employees > Effect of technological innovations on
- Occupational mobility
- Occupational retraining
- Skilled labor
- Unemployment
- Arbeitsmarkt
- Berufliche Qualifikation
- Beschäftigung
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Beroepspraktijk
- Vaardigheden
- Technische vernieuwing
- Beroepskwalificaties
- Werkloosheid
- skill
- occupational change
- skill obsolescence
- technological change
- skilled workers
- division of labour
- sexual division of labour
- survey
- job satisfaction
- work attitude
- women workers
- statistical table
- Desemprego e sub-emprego
- Mudanca social
- qualifications
- changement de profession
- obsolescence des qualifications
- changement technologique
- travailleur qualifié
- division du travail
- division du travail basée sur le sexe
- enquête
- satisfaction au travail
- attitude à l'égard du travail
- travailleuses
- tableau statistique
- calificación
- cambio de profesión
- obsolescencia de calificaciones
- cambio tecnológico
- trabajador especializado
- división del trabajo
- división del trabajo por sexo
- encuesta
- satisfacción en el trabajo
- actitud hacia el trabajo
- trabajadoras
- cuadros estadísticos
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
- Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- graph.
- literature survey.
- bibliographie.
- graphique.
- revue de littérature.
- artículo bibliográfico.
- bibliografía.
- gráfico.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: The SCELI Skill Findings / Michael Rose, Roger Penn and Jill Rubery -- 2. Patterns of Skill Change: Upskilling, Deskilling, or Polarization? / Duncan Gallie -- 3. Occupational Change in a Working-Life Perspective: Internal and External Views / Peter Elias -- 4. Technical Change and Skilled Manual Work in Contemporary Rochdale / Roger Penn -- 5. Technical Change and the Division of Labour in Rochdale and Aberdeen / Roger Penn, Ann Gasteen, Hilda Scattergood and John Sewel -- 6. Management and Employee Perceptions of Skill / Brendan Burchell, Jane Elliott, Jill Rubery and Frank Wilkinson -- 7. Gender and Skills / Sara Horrell, Jill Rubery and Brendan Burchell -- 8. Towards a Phenomenology of Skill / Brian Francis and Roger Penn -- 9. Job Satisfaction, Job Skills, and Personal Skills / Michael Rose -- 10. Skill and Samuel Smiles: Changing the British Work Ethic / Michael Rose.
- ISBN
- 0198279140
- 9780198279143
- 0198279280
- 9780198279280
- LCCN
- 94000831
- OCLC
- ocm29793179
- 29793179
- SCSB-2039114
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library