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Compilation of writings on the problems of manual workers and low income groups in the USA - covers employment and wages trends, family budget and income, social status, the role of trade unions, taxation, social security, education, political aspects, sociological aspects, discrimination against Black minority groups, labour mobility within the occupational structure, etc. References and statistical tables.
Highlighting the workers who provide the essential services, maintenance and manufactured goods that power the global economy, Management and Organizational Studies on Blue and Grey Collar Workers supplies essential knowledge on an often overlooked workforce for a variety of disciplines.
Focuses on the relationships between thw white-collar workers and the unions.
Jeff Torlina challenges the conventional wisdom about the attitudes of blue-collar men toward their work. Torlina highlights the voices of pipe fitters, welders, carpenters, painters, locomotive assemblers, and factory workers to reveal the complexities, and advantages, of working-class life. These men see blue-collar labor as a desirable alternative to white-collar occupations; their work involves integrity, character, pride, and a connection with being a real man; values that they perceive as lost in white-collar office jobs. The result is a penetrating critique of many commonly held assumptions, and a compelling case for a new understanding of our social class system. -- Book Description.