An Old Model of Social Class? Job Characteristics and the NS-SEC Schema

Williams, Mark (2017) An Old Model of Social Class? Job Characteristics and the NS-SEC Schema Work, Employment and Society, 31 (1). pp. 153-165.

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Abstract

This article explores the relationship between the job characteristics underlying the Goldthorpe model of social class (work monitoring difficulty and human asset specificity) and those underlying theories of technological change (routine and analytical tasks) highlighted as key drivers for growing inequality. Analysis of the 2012 British Skills and Employment Survey demonstrate monitoring difficulty and asset specificity predict National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) membership and employment relations in ways expected by the Goldthorpe model, but the role of asset specificity is partially confounded by analytical tasks. It concludes that while the Goldthorpe model continues to provide a useful descriptive tool of inequality-producing processes and employment relations in the labour market, examining underlying job characteristics directly is a promising avenue for future research in explaining dynamics in the evolution of occupational inequalities over time.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Surrey Business School
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Surrey Business School
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Williams, Mark m.t.williams@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	1 February 2017
DOI :	10.1177%2F0950017016653087
Copyright Disclaimer :	Williams MT, An Old Model of Social Class? Job Characteristics and the NS-SEC Schema, Work, Employment and Society (31, 1) pp. 153-165. Copyright © 2017 Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DIO: 10.1177/0950017016653087
Uncontrolled Keywords :	Employment relations; Job characteristics; NS-SEC; Social class; Technological change
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	04 Apr 2017 09:26
Last Modified :	06 Jul 2019 05:15
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/810793

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