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White-Collar Proletariat: The Industrial Behaviour of British Civil Servants book cover

1st Edition

White-Collar Proletariat The Industrial Behaviour of British Civil Servants

By Michael P. Kelly Copyright 1980
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge
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White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s. It looks at their turn to militancy  and asks whether it can be explained by reference to the sociological concept of proletarianization, a concept defined with particular reference to Marx and neo-Marxist writers. Attention is focused on a number of... Read more

Part 1. Background to the Study  1. Introduction  2. The Middle Class in Industrial Society: a Case of Proletarianization?  3. Overview: the Growth of the Civil Service  Part 2. The Empirical Study  4. The Market Situation of Civil Servants I: Income  5. The Market Situation of Civil Servants II: Social Origins  6. Work Situation: the Extent of Bureaucratization and Mechanization in the Civil Service  7. The Industrial Behaviour of Civil Servants  Part 3. Conclusions  8. Summary of Key Problems and Main Findings  9. Theoretical Issues and Considerations.  Appendix 1: Salaries of Clerical, Executive and Administrative Civil Servants, 1931–78  Appendix 2: Salaries of Scientific Civil Servants, 1958–78  Appendix 3: Salaries of Selected Occupations, 1930–78

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Michael P. Kelly

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