Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market

David Robbins, Lesley Caldwell, Graham Day

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market 2. Labour in the Woollen and Worsted Industry: A Critical Analysis of Dual Labour Market Theory 3. Patterns of Disadvantage in a City Labour Market 4. Women in the Local Labour Market: A Case with Particular Reference to the Retail Trades in Britain 1900-1930 5. ‘The Contested Terrain’: A Critique of R.C. Edwards’ Theory of Working Class Fractions and Politics 6. ‘Fraternalism’ and ‘Paternalism’ as Employer Strategies in Small Firms 7. Clerical ‘Proletariansation’: Myth or Reality 8. Class Relations and Uneven Development in Wales 9. Technocratic Ideology and the Reproduction of Inequality: The Case of the Electronics Industry in the Republic of Ireland