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- Title
Blue-Collar Classroom: From the Individual to the Collective.
- Authors
Szymanski, Sharon; Wells, Richard
- Abstract
This article examines how a labor studies program, most of whose students come from unions in the building trades, wrestles with a deeply rooted perception about the relationship between an individual's skill and her wages. Aspects of tradition and experience in the unionized building trades validate it, and public discourse today sees it as a basic economic truth. Other aspects of building trades' tradition and experience, as well as current mobilizations by low-wage service workers, show that collective power determines wages and enables a conversation about the social wage that decouples individual skill from wage levels.
- Subjects
LABOR; FAST food restaurant employees; WAGES -- Social aspects; FOOD industry wages; ABILITY; EDUCATION
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2016, Vol 41, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160449X16630487