Class and Labour Markets in Contemporary Society

Abstract

Although the previous chapter dealt with industrial society as a type, the discussion inevitably involved ideas about occupational structure and class. If industrial society is based on the separation of ownership and control, and the growth of knowledge (processes also exercising theorists of capitalist society) then the basis for social formation changes. A number of writers, most notably Touraine, Parkin, Giddens, Dahrendorf, and Goldthorpe, have suggested ways in which the new occupational roles provide the basis for new classes.