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White-Collar Proletariat The Industrial Behaviour of British Civil Servants
White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s. It looks at their turn to militancy and asks whether it can be explained by reference to the sociological concept of proletarianization, a concept defined with particular reference to Marx and neo-Marxist writers. Attention is focused on a number of variables which sociologists have regarded as critical, those of level and source of income, social origins and the organization of work.
Part 1. Background to the Study 1. Introduction 2. The Middle Class in Industrial Society: a Case of Proletarianization? 3. Overview: the Growth of the Civil Service Part 2. The Empirical Study 4. The Market Situation of Civil Servants I: Income 5. The Market Situation of Civil Servants II: Social Origins 6. Work Situation: the Extent of Bureaucratization and Mechanization in the Civil Service 7. The Industrial Behaviour of Civil Servants Part 3. Conclusions 8. Summary of Key Problems and Main Findings 9. Theoretical Issues and Considerations. Appendix 1: Salaries of Clerical, Executive and Administrative Civil Servants, 1931–78 Appendix 2: Salaries of Scientific Civil Servants, 1958–78 Appendix 3: Salaries of Selected Occupations, 1930–78
Biography
Michael P. Kelly
