College Students View Clerical Work: Issues in the Social Construction of Skill
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v22i3.44234Abstract
The level of skill that is attributed to a job is of enormous consequence for the political power, the income and the status of the workers who perform it. More skilled jobs attract more public respect and allow the people who perform them to demand better working conditions and higher rewards. Definitions of the skill level of a job, while purporting to be neutral descriptions of its character, in fact serve to justify its status and pay level, and to legitimize, or challenge the structure of inequality that exists in the workplace.
Downloads
Published
2018-05-16
Issue
Section
Articles
License
The Journal of Educational Thought retains first publication rights for all articles. The Journal grants reproduction rights for noncommercial educational purposes with the provision that full acknowledgement of the work’s source be noted on each copy. The Journal will redirect to the appropriate authors any inquiries for further commercial publication of individual articles. All authors wishing to publish in JET will be asked to fill in and sign a Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright agreement.
Authors must affirm that any submission to JET has not been and will not be published or submitted elsewhere while under considration by JET.
