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Class and Status Identity Among Information Technology Employees

Autor Horatio Sam-Aggrey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2013
This book reports on research about the class and status identities exhibited by different levels of information technology employees in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. An important finding of this research is that significant differences exist in the organization of work and the labour market situations experienced by different levels of IT employees. This study also revealed a strong relationship between the objective class position of interviewees and attitudes that can form the basis of rudimentary class consciousness. However, these fundamental bases of class consciousness are not developed into a coherent class consciousness. As a result, class consciousness was found to be fragmentary among these employees.In terms of status, the majority of interviewees in each of the occupational stratum believe that descendants of the merchant class who controlled the fishery sector in the 19th century possess high status positions because of the power and wealth they had accumulated over the years. Another finding is status inequality between people originating from the outports compared to those from St John's. Hence local factors appear to play an important role in identity forma
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783639516982
ISBN-10: 3639516982
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Scholars' Press

Notă biografică

Horatio G. Sam-Aggrey: M.A. (Soc) and D. Phil. (Soc) Memorial University, Newfoundland. He worked as an analyst with Statistics Canada from 2006-2013. He was also an adjunct professor in sociology at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University between 2007 and 2013. Sam-Aggrey is currently a social scientist with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.