Class, Status and Social Mobility in JamaicaInstitute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1987 - Social Science - 59 pages |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Contemporary Class Structure | 15 |
Inequality of Opportunity | 29 |
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$50 per week accounting clerks agricultural labourers artisans background capitalist cent of women class and small class core class groups class origins class positions classes and strata clerks not sales cluster analysis contemporary Jamaican craftsmen and operatives Derek Gordon disparity ratios Domestic workers downward mobility Employ labour employers exchange mobility expansion of opportunities foremen and higher grade service workers higher grade service income inequalities of opportunity intergenerational mobility Jamaican society log-linear model mainly managerial and professional managerial and supervisory mass professions middle class mobility chances MOBILITY IN JAMAICA mobility patterns mobility table Multidimensional Scaling occu occupational groups pations peasantry petit bourgeoisie proletarianization recruited relations of production sales clerks sample Secretarial and accounting small farmers small farming origins small propertied small proprietors Smallest Space Analysis social classes social mobility social origins social stratification STATUS AND SOCIAL stratum survey unskilled manual workers upper middle strata upward mobility urban wage labour