Employment in Britain
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Employment in Britain
（Industrial relations in context）
B. Blackwell, 1988
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The employment structure in Britain has been changing rapidly over the last two decades, with the growing importance of non-manual work, the expansion of the service sector, the rapid spread of new technology, the increase in women's employment and the re-emergence of mass unemployment. These developments have altered fundamentally the research agenda of the sociology of employment. At the same time, there has been a major shift in the theoretical approaches to the employment relationship. There has been a movement away from the "closed system" assumptions of traditional industrial sociology and a growing awareness of the central importance of the values and beliefs of employers and employees, the pattern of industrial relations and the structure of the labour market.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Employment: the employment relationship in sociological theory
- new technology and clerical work
- technological change and manual work
- attachment to work and social values
- gender and experience of employment
- patterns of conflict and accommodation
- the frontier of control. Part 2 The social organization of the labour market: employers and the labour market
- gender and the labour market
- discrimination and equal opportunity in employment
- unemployment in Britain
- employment, the household and social networks
- educational institutions, youth and the labour market. Part 3 Economic change and collective organization: ownership and employer control
- employment, unemployment and social stratification
- sectoral change and trade union organization.
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