work & employment

• Workplace hierarchy 


  In most workplaces there is a hierarchy of occupations with higher-status jobs not only enjoying more pay but also a number of other advantages.
• Weberian sociologists


  Believe more privileged workers tend to be in more skilled & high-status occupations that can command higher levels or pay & other rewards. Workers who are less skilled tend to have significantly less bargaining power (a poorer market situation).
• Marxists 


  Suggest that key workers who run business enterprises on behalf of their owners are likely to be much more highly rewarded because of the way that they act as the agents of the ruling class.
• Rewards


  There are not only social inequalities in relation to work in terms of basic levels of pay but also in relation to a variety of other types of rewards: Financial rewards, Status, Power & control, Opportunities for advancement, Job satisfaction, Job security.