Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association Series

Originally published in 1982 Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market, is an edited collection addressing the contemporary sociology of the labour market. The collection focuses on the categorisation of the diverse dualities that might be thought to characterise certain labour markets. The collection addresses many economic sectors, and there is a distinct focus on labour market analyses developed within neo-classical and radical economics in the USA. The analyses maintain that the labour market is in some sense dualistic.

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market 2. Labour in the Woollen and Worsted Industry: A Critical Analysis of Dual Labour Market Theory 3. Patterns of Disadvantage in a City Labour Market 4. Women in the Local Labour Market: A Case with Particular Reference to the Retail Trades in Britain 1900-1930 5. ‘The Contested Terrain’: A Critique of R.C. Edwards’ Theory of Working Class Fractions and Politics 6. ‘Fraternalism’ and ‘Paternalism’ as Employer Strategies in Small Firms 7. Clerical ‘Proletariansation’: Myth or Reality 8. Class Relations and Uneven Development in Wales 9. Technocratic Ideology and the Reproduction of Inequality: The Case of the Electronics Industry in the Republic of Ireland