welfare state or financial services) but all industrial sectors have seen this other major occupational transition. Rather than becoming fixated on economic activity, a more sociological approach is to turn directly to occupations (we have already seen how occupations, social classes and mobility mesh together). This helps to solve the ‘who does what?’ classification problem within each industry. Thus there are two sources of occupational change going on. One is the balance between industrial sectors identified in the Fisher-Clark account (even if the precise
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inequalities of outcome in the mobility competition, which can be attributed to social advantages or disadvantages (‘class’ differences) or to individual ‘abilities’ (see chapter Ten). The second element is the availability of employment, within which the mobility competition takes place: how important are the labour market changes under occupational transition? Third, the previous chapter identified gender differences in employment patterns, which may reasonably be expected to play into mobility outcomes. The analysis here is not intended to give a definitive answer
the causes of mobility, described some features of current mobility patterns and argued that social mobility is better understood as a series of connected but separable issues than a single monolithic process (the latter being evident in, for example, the call for ‘more mobility’ or ‘better schooling’). These arguments can be drawn together in two ways. On the one hand, mobility can be thought of as the product of interacting general forces and social processes. The groups that make up society are all subject to occupational transition, gender and ethnic
economically active men and women, interviewed in London in 1980 and 1981. Occupational transition has affirmed rather than modified an existing pattern of inequality. This is because some white-collar work in growing industries has become a typical feature of working-class experience. It is also suggested that the association of de- industrialisation and higher aggregate unemployment may have occurred under conditions which make militant political opposition unlikely to develop. W. Form and G. Putnam, Economic cleavages in the American working class British Journal of
’ distribution of classes/occupations was dissimilar to those of their children. This ‘asymmetry’ took the form of a higher proportion of blue-collar and a lower proportion of white-collar classes/ occupations among the origins than in the destinations.There were two main reasons for this asymmetry. First, occupational change – or the ‘occupational transition’ of industrial society discussed in chapter Eight – gives the younger generation starting new careers more access to the new ‘better’ white-collar jobs than their parents, who started work in a less white
quality, occupational transitions and internal job mobility, that is, switching tasks in the same workplace, have been designated as factors promoting working at an older age. In a study of later-life occupational transitions ( Sonnega et al 2016 ), it was found that most career changes were made between closely related occupations. The researchers also found that occupation workers are most likely to move into jobs that tend to be seasonal or have low barriers to entry, and that employees in physically demanding jobs are less likely to have switched to a different type
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