The Australian Class Structure: Some Preliminary Results from the Australian Class Project

The Australian Class Structure: Some Preliminary Results from the Australian Class Project

This paper describes the class structure of the Australian workforce in terms of the theoretical approaches developed by Erik Olin Wright. The two class profiles presented and discussed are Wright's contradictory class location schema and his second schema based on the exploitation of assets. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:Australian and New Zealand journal of sociology 1989-05, Vol.25 (1), p.100-120
Hauptverfasser: Baxter, J.H., Boreham, P.R., Clegg, S.R., Emmison, J.M., Gibson, D.M., Marks, G.N., Western, J.S., Western, M.C.
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Sprache:eng
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Australia
Class Differences
Class Society
Labor Force
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Zusammenfassung:This paper describes the class structure of the Australian workforce in terms of the theoretical approaches developed by Erik Olin Wright. The two class profiles presented and discussed are Wright's contradictory class location schema and his second schema based on the exploitation of assets. The distributions of class according to occupational group, gender and age are also discussed.
ISSN:1440-7833
0004-8690
1741-2978
DOI:10.1177/144078338902500106