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This chapter examines whether the influential analyses of the changing patterns of social class and perceptions of class identity amongst employees, symbolized by the ‘death of the working class’ thesis, are verified in our two leading new economy sectors, namely, software and call centres. These analyses concern the assumed disintegration of Marxist-inspired class analysis, the fragmentation of class structure and their replacement by other organizing criteria of social groups, such as voluntarily chosen identities. The claimed emergence of the information or network society has added a further dimension to the extant sociological debates concerning the existence and basis of class.
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© 2007 Chris Baldry, Jeff Hyman, Phil Taylor, Peter Bain, Dora Scholarios, Abigail Marks, Aileen Watson, Kay Gilbert, Gregor Gall and Dirk Bunzel
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Baldry, C. et al. (2007). Class and Status. In: The Meaning of Work in the New Economy. The Future of Work Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210646_8
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