The Rise of 'New' Social Classes within the Service Class in The Netherlands.
The employment structure of The Netherlands and other advanced countries is evolving from industrial to postindustrial. Yet existing social class schemata, like the well-known Erikson, Goldthorpe and Portocarero (EGP) class schema, were constructed for an industrial employment structure. In this stu...
| Publicado en: | Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.) Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 129 - 147 |
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