Unskilled blue collar workers: Bourgeois and/or authoritarian? Results from a small scale survey in Belgium

Unskilled blue collar workers: Bourgeois and/or authoritarian? Results from a small scale survey in Belgium

In this article, two contrasting theories on the attitudes of unskilled blue collar workers are confronted: the ‘embourgeoisement’ thesis and the hypothesis of the ‘authoritarianism of the working class’. The ‘embourgeoisement’ thesis states that blue collar workers adopted the attitudes (and life s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hans De Witte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2007-04-01
Series:The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
Subjects:
Embourgeoisement thesis, blue collar workers, white collar workers, working class in Belgium, authoritarianism of the working class, socio-cultural attitudes of occupational groupings.
Online Access:http://www.td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/329

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