Skilled Workers in the Class Structure

Download or read book Skilled Workers in the Class Structure written by Roger Penn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an investigation of trade union structures, and the earnings and intermarriage of manual workers in the cotton and engineering industries in Rochdale between 1856 and 1964. Argues that an internal division of the manual working class around the axis of skill was a central feature of labour market and work relations in Britain between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-1960s.