social class

social inequality

Ritzer

critical in the way in which working class workers are dehumanized within fast food chains such as McDonald’s.

Given scripts to recite rather than being able to communicate properly with customers

Creativity is now undermined by machines, rotas and instructions.

He called these jobs McJob’s

Abrams

study on men and women who lived below minimum wage

working class are often not paid for time spent at work.

had to attend training she was not paid for, lunch breaks were not paid for

shows that working class pay, is further eroded by practices which are unethical.

Elite theory

Middle and upper classes have advantages in their employment opportunities. The Sutton trust argue that the ruling class use elite schools to get into elite universities.

They use the old boys network to gain employment in elite jobs

mac an ghail

research showed how the decline of traditional manual jobs such as mining and ship building left working class men being unemployed

impacted their status in the community and their identity

crisis in masculinity due to economic changes and loss of traditional roles.

Jones

Uk is run by a political and economic elite who manipulate society in their interests.

profiteering of taxpayers money is unethical, or even corrupt.

Incomes of the wealthy are protected by preferable treatment