Professional power and skill use in the "knowledge economy" a class analysis
"This is the first systematic analysis of the class structure of professionals. Their growing numbers, including mainly non-managerial professional employees as well as self-employed professionals, professional employers and professional managers, have been conflated in most prior studies. In t...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden, Boston
Brill Sense
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | The knowledge economy and education
volume 12 |
| Schlagworte: |
Humankapital
> Qualifikation
> Wissensgesellschaft
> Kapitalismus
> Führungskräfte
> Angestellte
> Unterbeschäftigung
> Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement
> Weiterbildung
> Pflegeberufe
> Ingenieure
> Welt
> Professional employees
> Social status
> Power (Social sciences)
> Vocational qualifications
> Fallstudie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This is the first systematic analysis of the class structure of professionals. Their growing numbers, including mainly non-managerial professional employees as well as self-employed professionals, professional employers and professional managers, have been conflated in most prior studies. In this book, evidence comes from a unique series of large-scale surveys since the 1980s as well as recent comparative case studies of engineers and nurses. A primary focus is on issues of job control and skill utilization among these knowledge workers widely regarded as pivotal to the sustainability of knowledge economies. Professional employees in particular are found to face declining job control, diminishing use of their skills and increasing barriers to continuing learning. There are many original benchmarks here to serve as guides for further studies on professional classes, job design and training strategies in advanced capitalist economies"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 286 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9789004463059 978-90-04-46305-9 9789004463066 978-90-04-46306-6 9789004463073 |