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| Author: | Bühlmann, F. |
| Title: | The corrosion of career? Occupational trajectories of business economists and engineers in Switzerland |
| Journal: | European sociological review
2008 : DEC, VOL. 24:5, p. 601-616 |
| Index terms: | careers occupations business economics engineers |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Achievement careers are seen as a distinctive element of the post-war period in occidental societies. This paper questions the thesis of the corrosion of achievement career by analysing the trajectories of more than 440 engineers and business economists in Switzerland as to their loyalty, orderliness, and temporal rhythm. An inspection of types of careers and cohorts uncovers that even facing a decline of loyalty over time, hierarchical orderliness is not touched by those changes. In the first place, technical-industrial careers fit the loyal and regular pattern. Thus, this trajectory-type represents only a minority, being by far the slowest and least successful as to hierarchical ascension. |
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