Protest and Participation: The New Working Class in Italy (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)

Low-Beer, John R.

ISBN 10: 0521292778 / ISBN 13: 9780521292771

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1978

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Protest and Participation: The New Working Class in Italy (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521292778
• ISBN 13: 9780521292771
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This 1978 study examines the new working class of scientists, white collar professionals, and technicians that has emerged in advanced in industrial societies and considers its role in the political process. Professor Low-Beer examines the lives of a sample group of Italian electronics technicians, as theirs had been the most militant profession in Italy. Although Low-Beer warns against quick conclusions regarding the broader political significance of such desires, vivid quotations from interviews illustrate the principal longing indicated by his statistical analyses: for more control over work situation. Whilst describing the lifestyles and class imagery among the technicians, the author compares them to other groups, and concludes that strike participation is to be explained by the political backgrounds of workers, and only secondarily by organizational factors. Professor Low-Beer also analyses the significance of the increase that had occurred in the number of professionals in technical professions for the future of politics and industrial conflict.

Book Description

This 1978 study examines the new working class of white collar professionals that has emerged in advanced in industrial societies and considers its role in the political process. It examines a sample group of Italian technicians and the significance of the new working class for the future of politics and industrial conflict.