Education, Employers and Class Mobility

By M. Jackson, J. Goldthorpe, C. Mills. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. J. Goldthorpe
2. Chris Warhurst
3. G. Dragolov
4. J. Delhey
5. K. Rowlingson

Citations in the corpus

• Employee experience of aesthetic labour in retail and hospitality (2007, background): “In an analysis of sales and personal services job advertisements, Jackson et al. (2005) point out that the skills stated as necessary by employers are ‘social skills’ and ‘personal characteristics’.”
• The role of education in intergenerational social mobility: Problems from empirical research in sociology and some theoretical pointers from economics (2014, background): “4 In contrast, with non-technical managerial positions or with various ‘people processing’ occupations in, say, sales or personal services, where what constitutes relevant knowledge and skills is less easily defined and likely to be more firm-specific, employers may be more concerned with non-observ”