Abstract
If only a few of these predictions about ‘new classes’ and a ‘postindustrial society’ are correct, we are living in the middle of a major change in the way we organise and experience work; a change as great as that produced by the growth of the large corporations which created the administrative jobs that have been the staple of middle class careers for most of this century. But are we?
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© 1986 Raymond Peter Whalley
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Whalley, P. (1986). Industry: Old and New. In: The Social Production of Technical Work. Cambridge Studies in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07469-3_2
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