Skill and Occupational Change |
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| Editor:
| Penn, Roger
Rose, Michael
Rubery, Jill |
| Series title: | Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-827914-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $106.50 |
Book Description:
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Leading economists, sociologists, and 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, the contributors' findings give clear and sometimes surprising answers to questions about skills, equality, and new technology debated by social and economic observers in all advanced countries. Skill and Occupational Change exploits...
More DescriptionLeading economists, sociologists, and 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, the contributors' findings give clear and sometimes surprising answers to questions about skills, equality, and new technology debated by social and economic observers in all advanced countries. Skill and Occupational Change exploits the richest single data-set available 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. Contributors: Brendan Burchell, Peter Elias, Jane Elliott, Brian Francis, Duncan Gallie, Ann Gasteen, Sara Horrell, Roger Penn, Michael Rose, Jill Rubery, Hilda Scattergood, John Sewell, Frank Wilkinson