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| Author: | Matheson, C. |
| Title: | Are clerical workers proletarian? A case study of the Australian Public Service |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
2007 : DEC, VOL. 58:4, p. 547-576 |
| Index terms: | workers social classes government Australia public services |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study examines, whether clerical workers can considered as proletarian. Australian Public Service (hereafter as: APS) clerks are used as a case study. The study indicates that since the late 1980s, there has been a significant increase in the number of skills required in APS clerks work. The primary reasons for that are the technological change and workplace restructuring. Thus, the declined status of clerical work is the likely reason for the proletarization. Most clerks have also identified to middle class. The clerks cannot be allocated in a speficic class, because of their mixed class situations, diverse class identities and different positions. |
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