Skill and Occupational Change

by Penn

Overview

In this major work, leading economists, sociologists and psychologists present their original research into changes in the job structure of Britain in the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198279280
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	06/30/2003
Series:	Social Change and Economic Life Initiative
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Lancaster University

University of Bath

Manchester School of Management, UMIST

Editorial Reviews

"The book clearly advances the study of skill and occupational change in many ways. It deepens our understanding of the dynamics of those phenomena among female workers, especially women in part-time employment. It expands our knowledge about the agreements and disagreements between workers and employers in their definitions and evaluations of skills. It improves on the study of the relations between job-required skills and worker's actual skills. It pioneers the study of how changing job skills affect the work ethic. It decisively demonstrates that the findings of systematic surveys and case studies agree. It reduces disagreement on the question of whether skills are socially or technically defined by various occupational groups. And it refutes ideologically inspired theories about the degradation of skills. These indeed are formidable achievements."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review

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