Title: Class and skill :
Authors: Ainley, Patrick.
Date: 1993
Publisher: Cassell,
Physical description: vii, 104 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: 1. Introduction -- Understanding Rapid Social Change -- 2. Two Approaches to the Question of 'Skill'. Quality. And Quantity. The Emergence of Skill. New Technologies, New Skills -- 3. What Has Happened to Social Class? Marx on the Middle Class. The Way We Were. Beyond the Great Divide. Towards Mass Multiskilling? -- 4. 'Skill Shortages' and Class Cultures. Whose 'Skill Shortage'? Information Society. Cultural Differences, Economic Similarity. The Resurrection of the Rough -- 5. Popular Perceptions of Social Class. In the Middle -- Between the Snobs and the Yobs. Working for Yourself in the Enterprise State. Education and the Middle Class. Class Consciousness in a New World Order -- 6. Conclusion -- Skills for Survival.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Educational change--Great Britain.; Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-; Industrial sociology--Great Britain.; Skilled labor--Great Britain.; Social classes--Great Britain; Social classes--Great Britain--History.