HIST243 Lecture Notes - Glass Ceiling, Skilled Worker, Deskilling
10 Jul 2014
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Rise of the white collar, decline of the blue collar changes. #of self-employed declined (esp. in 50s & agriculture) Rise of white-collar salaried employees due to technical & organizational changes: by 1980, non-manual labour is the majority, where: public sector; new industries. At the same time, blue-collar decline: the unskilled especially affected by changes in agriculture shift from heavy (wartime) manufacturing. Consequences: change in employee/employer relations, working class becoming middle class, all identifying together. Embourgeoisement economic homogeneity cultural homogeneity: working class catching up in wages suit & tie is uniform, non-manual salaried work, not hourly wage, work with mind, not hands. Originally: clerks substitute for management higher social status; but not paid better than blue-collar source of status shared in authority of employer skilled worker. Increased size (of group) huge menise(?) decreased wage advantage between blue & white-collar: wage not effective difference. Horizontal & vertical segregation between the two: men & women separated into different types of jobs (like hr)
