Originally published as International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 28, Issue 5 & 6, 2008
ISBN: 978 1 84663 982 1
E-ISBN: 978 1 84663 983 8
Guest edited by:Dr Robert M. Blackburn
The papers of this e-book address a number of issues relating to social stratification and work. The papers included here provide a diverse set of significant approaches and each makes a significant contribution to our understanding of social stratification and work. Taken together, they demonstrate the importance of social inequality and the various ways it shapes our societies and individual lives. The papers also have an international approach, drawing on material from many nations or focusing more directly on Spain, The Netherlands, Malaysia or Britain. The collection arises (with one addition) from papers presented at the highly successful Social Stratification Conference at Clare College, Cambridge, in September 2006.
Contents:
A new indicator of technical complexity at work
Jorge Rodríguez Menés
This paper aims to conceptualise and measure the technical aspects of the division of labour (DoL) with a new survey indicator of technical complexity (ITC) at work.
The importance of specificity in occupation-based social classifications
Paul S. Lambert, Koon Leai Larry Tan, Kenneth Prandy, Vernon Gayle, Manfred Max Bergman
This paper aims to present reasons why social classifications which use occupations should seek to adopt “specific” approaches which are tailored to the country, time period and gender of the subjects under study.
Business services and the knowledge economy in Malaysia
Jennifer Jarman and Parminder Singh Chopra
This paper aims to argue that the World Bank-sanctioned strategy of investing in knowledge economy infrastructure will not make a developing country competitive in the highest value activities such as research, design and innovation.
Intergenerational transfer of occupational status in nineteenth century Zeeland, The Netherlands: A test of the influence of industrialisation, mass communication and urbanisation in 117 municipalities
Richard L. Zijdgeman
This paper seeks to study the influence of industrialisation, urbanisation and means of communication on the association between father's and son's occupational status in all 117 municipalities in the province of Zeeland, The Netherlands from 1811 to 1890.
Modelling socioeconomic trajectories: an optimal matching approach
Juliet Stone, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli and David Blane
The aim of this paper is to describe the use of sequence analysis to model trajectories of life-course economic activity status, within a broader research agenda aimed at improving understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic position and health.
Minority ethnic men in British labour market (1972-2005)
Yaojun Li and Anthony Heath
This paper seeks to investigate ethnic disadvantages in the UK labour market in the last three decades.
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