The New Working Class? White-Collar Workers and their Organizations: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Richard Hyman, Robert Price (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1983
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-45
The Problem of Definition....Pages 46-51
Clerical Labour: Some Early Arguments....Pages 52-65
Clerical Labour and the New Technology....Pages 66-73
Technicians in Modern Capitalism....Pages 74-92
Two Views of ‘Service’ Labour....Pages 93-97
The Search for Theory: Synthesis or Dissonance?....Pages 98-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Introduction....Pages 147-183
The Early History of White-Collar Unionism....Pages 184-203
White-Collar Union Character....Pages 204-246
White-Collar Workers and Attitudes to Trade Unions....Pages 247-281
Back Matter....Pages 282-285

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Sociology of Work; Human Resource Management

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