A revised version of the conventional approach of classifying families in social class analysis recently surfaced in Sociology. Two-partner families are classified according to the class position of the main bread-winner, usually male. This approach discounts the importance of the other partner's work experience within the family. The special case of the cross-class couple is used to illuminate significant problems in the conventional approach. Swedish data from 1980 brings into question several of the assumptions of the conventional approach. Do women actually have a weaker attachment to the world of work? Are most families actually class homogeneous as the unitary family classification system would lead one to believe? Using evidence from a qualitative study of cross-class couples, this paper argues that diametrically opposed class experiences have significant effects on dynamics in the family unit. Issues in the division of labour in the home and access to cultural capital are clearly affected in class heterogeneous families. Women's work makes a significant difference in everyday life in the family and should necessarily affect the classification of families in class analysis.
Study design Cross sectional survey of 1055 persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.Objectives (1) To analyse the employment levels of people of working age with SCI, including possible gender differences.(2) To study the relevance of occupational class before SCI and its impact on employment and occupational class after SCI. Setting Members of national SCI consumer associations. Methods Employment status and social mobility after SCI was regressed on occupational class before SCI, using multinomial and binary logistic regression analysis of employment, while controlling for other explanatory variables to employment after SCI and demographic characteristics. Results Employment levels after injury were similar for men and women in each of the four nations, but Dutch women had significantly lower scores on predicted employment than Dutch men. Employment and social mobility trajectories were heavily in favour of middle-class occupations. Gender differences in employment status at the time of study primarily occurred among those in working-class occupations before SCI, with men less likely than women of being non-employed. Working-class men were significantly more likely than working-class women to retain a working-class occupation at the time of study, and although non-significant, to attain a middle-class occupation after SCI. Conclusion There was little variation in employment by gender within and across countries but significant differences between working-class and middle-class occupations before and after injury. The results suggest that targeted employment measures should be particularly invested in the rehabilitation of women in working-class occupations.
www.arkiv.nu i samarbete med Katalys-institut för facklig idéutveckling www.katalys.org Återutgivningen av detta arbete ingår i Katalys rapportserie "Klass i Sverige". För en uppdaterad klassanalys utifrån den här boken av en av dess författare, se Göran Ahrnes Katalysrapport tillsammans med Niels Stöber och Max Thaning, Klasstrukturen i Sverige. Struktur, klass och inkomster: Kontinuitet och förändring 1985-2015 (2018). Se även övriga rapporter från Katalys klassprojekt som listas i slutet av den här boken och Göran Therborns Kapitalet, överheten och alla vi andra. Klassamhället i Sverige-det rådande och det kommande (Arkiv förlag 2018). Den här e-boken från Arkiv förlag distribueras fritt över internet genom open access. Titeln finns också tillgänglig i tryckt utgåva med ISBN: 978 91 7924 325 8. Verket är upphovsskyddat enligt en upphovsrättslicens från Creative Commons: erkännande-ickekommersiell-ingabearbetningar, som medger icke-kommersiell användning och spridning i oförändrat skick så länge källan anges.
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