Categories Of Employment Status Research Articles

Goodbye to Supervisors?

Liberal theories of post-industrial society and Marxist theories of the labour process tend to converge in their respective accounts of the place of supervisors in relation to putative changes in the organisation of work. A common conjecture is that supervisors are progressively being denuded of their powers and functions within industry. This paper uses data from a national sample survey of Britain to discuss the substance of the supervisory role in modern capitalist enterprises. The conclusion reached is that direct supervision in the workplace is not obviously in decline. The data also raise issues about the categories of employment status used in official statistics as well as those of the Goldthorpe class schema.

Women's Participation in the New South Wales Teachers Federation

In proportion to their numbers in the membership of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the representation of women at the senior decision-making and administrative levels of the union is low, a situation common amongst unions in Australia and overseas. In 1982, a postal survey was conducted on 1000 women members of the Federation, measuring a total of 67 socio-demographic, behavioural, attitudinal and personality variables. The group surveyed was so composed to enable a comparison between activists, all women who met a set of criteria for activism cast in terms of membership of decision-making bodies and attendance at meetings as established before the survey, and inactivists, a sample drawn from the remainder of the female membership in proportions representative of its structure in terms of twelve categories of employment status. The Federation woman activist of today has much in common with a broad spectrum of trade unionists past and present, but important new influences are relative freedom from a variety of domestic pressures, and acceptance of a range of feminist values.

Employment status and retrospective and prospective migration in the United States

Resumen Este trabajo examina los datos de una encuesta especial de la Oficina del Censo, sobre las razones para movilizarse y sobre el estado de empleo, al inicio y al final del período de un año de migración. Estudios anteriores han enfocado el estado de empleo al final del período de migración, para aislar el patrón de las tasas retrospectivas más altas de migración para los desempleados. Se obtiene resultados similares para la propensión que tienen a migrar en el futuro, cuando se considera el estado de empleo al inicio del período de migración, y predominan las razones relacionadas con trabajo, para “explicar” la más elevada predisposició a migrar que tienen los desempleados. Los datos muestran un alto grado de movilidad entre las categorías de acuerdo al estado de empleo para los migrantes, y hacen inaplicables las interpretaciones tradicionales de tasas retrospectivas de migración en términos de pro pensión a la migración. El estado de empleo al final de un período de migraciónde un año no sirve como indicador del estado de empleo antes de la migración.