White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s. It looks at their turn to militancy and asks whether it can be explained by reference to the sociological concept of proletarianization, a concept defined with particular reference to Marx and neo-Marxist writers. Attention is focused on a number of variables which sociologists have regarded as critical, those of level and source of income, social origins and the organization of work.
Part
1. Background to the Study
1. Introduction
2. The Middle Class in
Industrial Society: a Case of Proletarianization?
3. Overview: the Growth of
the Civil Service Part
2. The Empirical Study
4. The Market Situation of
Civil Servants I: Income
5. The Market Situation of Civil Servants II: Social
Origins
6. Work Situation: the Extent of Bureaucratization and Mechanization
in the Civil Service
7. The Industrial Behaviour of Civil Servants Part
3.
Conclusions
8. Summary of Key Problems and Main Findings
9. Theoretical
Issues and Considerations. Appendix 1: Salaries of Clerical, Executive and
Administrative Civil Servants, 193178 Appendix 2: Salaries of Scientific
Civil Servants, 195878 Appendix 3: Salaries of Selected Occupations, 193078
