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Statistics and statistical analyses have become a key feature of
contemporary social science. Social statistics is the use of
statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social
environment. This can be accomplished through polling a particular
group of people, evaluating a particular subset of data obtained
about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis
of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors. This
major reference collection brings together the classic pieces that
have framed the often controversial debates of using statistics as
a social research method.
This book reinterprets the British class structure and its
evolution from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1980s. It
provides a detailed empirical study of the growth of trade unions,
and development of earnings differentials and patterns of class
inter-marriage during this period, and uses this material to
reassess theoretical questions of class consciousness, the notion
of the 'traditional working class', and the ideas of a 'labour
aristocracy'. A particular feature is that this book is part of the
development of a mode of sociological analysis intended to be
compatible with economic theory. Its primary focus is on the
relationship between skilled and non-skilled manual workers. This
1984 suggests that an internal division of the manual working class
on the basis of skill has been a persistent feature of economic
relations since the late nineteenth century. It goes on to show,
however, by the extensive analysis of inter marriage, that this
economic division has not been translated into equivalent social
boundaries.
During the 1980's, British trade unionism confronted its greatest
challenge, and suffered its greatest reverses, since the inter-war
period. After a decade of rapid growth, the unions experienced a
steep decline in membership, and a virtual marginalization in
national political affairs. By 1990, a united, self-confident,
social movement as well as a powerful industrial bargainer, often
seemed more closely akin to a demoralized collection of special
interest groupings. This book addresses a number of fundamental
questions raised by the record of these years. It examines the
reasons for membership loss and the implications for trade union
influence in the workplace. It looks at the steps the unions took
in reaction to the membership problem and the difficulties they
confronted doing so. It also looks at whether this period can be
seen as making a fundamental break with the past, resulting in
irretrievable loss by British trade unionism of its former
important position in British society and the British workplace, or
whether the past decade has been but a temporary recession and the
future can still see revived movement. This book is intended for
scholars, postgraduates, and 3rd year
In this major new book leading sociologists, economists, and social
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, their findings give clear and often
surprising answers to questions debated by social and economic
observers in all advanced countries. Does technolgoy destroy skills
or rebuild them? how does skill affect the attitudes of employees
and their managers towards their jobs? Are women gaining greater
skill equality with men, or are they still stuck on the lower rungs
of the skill and occupational ladders? The book also takes up
neglected issues (what do employees really mean by a skilled job?
how does skill-change link with changes in social values?) and
challenges and discredits the widely held view that new technology
has de-skilled the workforce. Skill and Occupational Change
exploits the richest single data-set available in contemporary
Europe 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.
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