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Work, Politics, and the Division of Labor. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

David F. Crew
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

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Type
The Management in the Industrial Workplace
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1985

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References

1 . United States, Bureau of the Census, Social Indicators, Vol. III (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980).Google Scholar

2 A recent report in The Economist suggests that in America, “an extraordinary growth in service jobs is projected into the future … these already account for 56% of all the jobs in the United States.” 24–30 November 1984, p. 24). To be sure, not all service sector work is low-paid. Some economists even suggest that income from service jobs will rise in the future. On the other hand, the more pessimistic seers “who fear a polarised America think especially in terms of the computer industry: highly-paid whizz-kids and professionals at the top and, at the bottom, clerks and janitors and people sweeping the print-outs off the floor, with few middle-range workers to be seen anywhere”Google Scholar (ibid.).