White Collar Workers: Trade Unions and Class

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Original Title Page
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Class Relations at Work
	1. Class and Control at the Point of Production – Foremen 1
		The Necessary Evil
		The Surveillance of Supervision
		Surveillance by Personal Invigilation
		Competition for the Supervisors
		The Bureaucratic Mode of Surveillance
		Relationships with the Workforce
		Conclusions
	2. Class and Control at the Point of Production – Foremen 2
		Class Theories
		Browns' The Company and the Factory
		The Recruitment of Foremen
		The Role of the Foreman
		The Foremen and Trade Unionism
		Conclusion
	3. Class Relations, Diversity and Location – Technical Workers
		Introduction
		The Genesis of British Technical Occupations
		Homogeneity and Heterogeneity within Technical Work and its Significance
		The Work and Social Relation of Some Technical Occupations
		Marginal Technical Jobs
		Established Technical Occupations
		Threats to the Craft Tradition
		Conclusion
Part Two: The Politics of White Collar Trade Unionism
	4. Work Supervisors and Trade Unionism
		Introduction
		Factors Behind White Collar Unionisation and the 'Character' of White Collar Unions
		Supervisors' Demands on White Collar Unions – Survey Data
		Sample and Methods
		Results and Discussion
		Employment Conditions
		Control Issues
		Education, Training and Advice
		Conclusions from the Survey
	5. Trade Unionism and the New Middle Class – The Case of ASTMS
		ASTMS
		Strategy and Growth
		The Appeal of the ASTMS
		The Structure of the Union
		Differentials
		Incomes Policies
		Recognition
		ASTMS and the Labour Party
		Conclusion
	6. Engineers, Trade Unionism and Tass
		TASS and Engineers: The Context
		TASS, Engineers and Recruitment Strategies
		Militancy and Autonomy as Modes of Recruitment
		Recruitment Through Militancy: C. A. Parsons
		Recruitment Through Autonomy: British Aerospace
		Conclusion
Bibliography
Index