 Shifting Classes: Interactions with Industry and Gender Shifts in the 1980sJon Gubbay Sociological Research Online, 2000, vol. 5, issue 3, 1-10 Abstract: Data drawn from Population Census of Great Britain suggest that both the images of proletarianisation and upward shift of the class structure are over-generalised. Shift- share analysis is used for the period 1981-1991 to explore the complex interactions between changes in class composition within industrial sectors, change in the relative size of sectors and sex composition shifts (within classes, within sectors and within class/sector categories). For example, sector shifts explain change in numbers of self-employed professionals and semi-skilled manual workers but changes in class composition within sectors account for changes in numbers of managers, non-manual ancillary workers and artists, unskilled workers and own account workers other than professionals. Change in class composition does not account for the change in the sex ratios within classes. Although sector shifts contribute to a decline of the male/female ratio in most classes, this process is uneven, with both declining male dominated and growing female dominated sectors, whose effect is partly counterbalanced by growing male dominated and declining female dominated sectors. Keywords: Change; Class Composition; Class Structure; Industrial Sectors; Population Census; Proletarianisation; Sex Composition; Shift-share; Social Class; Socio-economic Groups (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socres:v:5:y:2000:i:3:p:1-10 DOI: 10.5153/sro.505 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Sociological Research Online |
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