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- Title
Electronics technicians in an industrialising economy: some glimpses on the 'New Middle Class'
- Authors
Sek-Hong Ng
- Abstract
The 'New Working Class' theory, popularised in French sociology during the 1960s and 1970s, envisages the advent of a politically inspired class movement that rekindles the vision of a new social order as the technicians rise to become its vanguard. According to writers like Mallet and Touraine, these technical 'white-collars' tend to take over from the traditional manual groups in posing as the 'standard-bearers' of class-based industrial radicalism and solidarity. This paper proposes to trace the recent vein of discussions on the class implications of occupational and technological transformation from such a neo-Marxian perspective. It also attempts to apply these arguments to interpret the characteristics of a new occupation in Hong Kong -- the technicians working m the electronics and related industries, with reference to an empirical study carried out in the early 1980s.[1].
- Subjects
WORKING class; SOCIAL classes; ELECTRONIC technicians; SOCIOLOGY; LABOR market; RADICALISM
- Publication
Sociological Review, 1986, Vol 34, Issue 3, p611
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.1986.tb00691.x