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Additional authors

1. Penn, Roger, 1949-
2. Rose, Michael, 1937-
3. Rubery, Jill.

Description

1. xvi, 365 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. 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.
2. 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

1. Social change and economic life initiative

Uniform title

1. Social change and economic life initiative

Subject

1. Geschichte 1980-1994
2. Occupational mobility > Great Britain
3. Skilled labor > Great Britain
4. Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain
5. Occupational retraining > Great Britain
6. Unemployment > Great Britain
7. Occupational Groups > effect of technological innovations on
8. Employees > Effect of technological innovations on
9. Occupational mobility
10. Occupational retraining
11. Skilled labor
12. Unemployment
13. Arbeitsmarkt
14. Berufliche Qualifikation
15. Beschäftigung
16. Aufsatzsammlung
17. Beroepspraktijk
18. Vaardigheden
19. Technische vernieuwing
20. Beroepskwalificaties
21. Werkloosheid
22. skill
23. occupational change
24. skill obsolescence
25. technological change
26. skilled workers
27. division of labour
28. sexual division of labour
29. survey
30. job satisfaction
31. work attitude
32. women workers
33. statistical table
34. Desemprego e sub-emprego
35. Mudanca social
36. qualifications
37. changement de profession
38. obsolescence des qualifications
39. changement technologique
40. travailleur qualifié
41. division du travail
42. division du travail basée sur le sexe
43. enquête
44. satisfaction au travail
45. attitude à l'égard du travail
46. travailleuses
47. tableau statistique
48. calificación
49. cambio de profesión
50. obsolescencia de calificaciones
51. cambio tecnológico
52. trabajador especializado
53. división del trabajo
54. división del trabajo por sexo
55. encuesta
56. satisfacción en el trabajo
57. actitud hacia el trabajo
58. trabajadoras
59. cuadros estadísticos
60. United Kingdom
61. Great Britain
62. Großbritannien
63. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
64. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
65. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

1. bibliography.
2. graph.
3. literature survey.
4. bibliographie.
5. graphique.
6. revue de littérature.
7. artículo bibliográfico.
8. bibliografía.
9. gráfico.

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.