Class inequality
Cards (7)
- Ritzer
- Working class workers are dehumanised within fast food chains (given scripts, machines, rotas and instructions)- ‘McJobs’
- No longer expected to enjoy work or be empowered
- Abrams
- Studied WC people who lived below minimum wage
- Often not paid for time spent at work- when undercover she was asked to attend training and take lunch breaks whilst not being paid
- Shows that WC pay is further eroded by unethical practices.
- The Sutton Trust(Neo-Marxist)
- Elite Theory- ruling class use elite schools to get into elite universities then use social networking and the old boys' network to gain employment in elite jobs.
- 50% of Westminster College got a place at Oxbridge in 2007
- WC are disadvantaged in the options open to them
- Alan Milburn 2012
- Led ‘Fair Access to Professional Careers Report’ which found that there is a glass floor which is an invisible safety net which UC children use to help maintain high paid jobs (private tutors, elite internships, etc).
- The judiciary remains socially elitist- 15/17 Supreme Court judges all privately educated, 26/38 justices of appeal (only 2 state educated), 43% barristers went to fee-paying secondary school.
- ‘This is social engineering on a grand scale. The senior ranks of professions are a closed shop.’
- Goldthorpe & Lockwood
- WC are increasingly instrumental in their attitude to work, seeing them as a means to an end since they don’t gain satisfaction or status from them
- Fraternity and unity within traditional WC jobs are gone, disadvantaging them further
- Ghaill
- Decline of traditional manual labour jobs led to high levels of unemployment for WC men.
- Impacted their status in the community and their identity as it was seen as an essential part of WC male identity- ‘crisis of masculinity’
- ONS
- Pay is lower for those in the bottom of society
- Those in the bottom paid 40% were paid just 20% of the pay
- Families cannot afford the best housing, food, and opportunities.