Skill, Craft and Class
A Theoretical Critique and a Critical Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2325389 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D J Lee (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-78 |
| Publication date | 1981-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/003803858101500103 |
| OpenAlex | W2039149197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 26 |
Common to a number of otherwise divergent writings is the attempt to offer a theory of how the changing organization of industrial production impinges upon average skill levels in the work force. From this basis, generalizations are made about the future development of the class structure of advanced capitalism. This article argues that such a simple relation between skill and class structure is unlikely. Among the many factors which intervene between the two, the most important and complex are the labour market institutions and processes determining the exchange value of labour. An appropriate framework of concepts is deployed to allow for this; and its use is illustrated via the critical case of the 'deskilling' of craft labour in twentieth-century Britain. It is argued that important implications exist for the concepts and theories by which the problems of skill and class have hitherto been approached
Capitalism · Class (philosophy) · Craft · Deskilling · Economics · Epistemology · Market economy · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Production (economics) · Relation (database) · Relations of production · Simple (philosophy) · Social class · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Computer Science · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
Combined and uneven development in the clothing industry
Repensando a teoria da proletarização dos profissionais
Women and Equality
Occupational Structure and its Transformation in the United States Economy 1970–1990
Using interpretive sociology to explore workplace skill and knowledge
Sources of Variation in Labour Market Segmentation
Computers, managers, and control at work
Playing at being skilled men
Putting Unemployment in its Place
New technology, new careers
The Transition from School to Work and the Recession
Office technology and clerical skills
Skills, Control, and the Mass Professions
Building Job Quality from the inside-out
Theories of Skill and Class Structure
Social Harmony and the Small Firm
Social Construction of Skill
The Deskilling Controversy
Advanced Technology and Worker Alienation
Modes of Discrimination in the Recruitment Process
The craft of intensive care medicine
Industrialism and industrial man
The Working Class in the Labour Market
The class structure of the advanced societies.
The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Economy and Class Structure
The Demand for Apprentice Recruits by the Engineering Industry, 1951‐71
Efficiency and Effort
Wages in Practice and Theory
The Closed Shop in Britain
The Role of the “New” Industries in Britain during the 1930s
Post-Industrial Society
A Hundred Years of Progress. The Record of the Scottish Typographical Association, 1853-1952
In search of a new working class
A Hundred Years of Progress. The Record of the Scottish Typographical Association, 1853-1952
Apprenticeship
Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain
Recruitment to Skilled Trades
Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry
The New Industrial State
Industry and Labour
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2013 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |