ABSTRACT
In this third part of the book we turn to an area which is sometimes described as the sociology of work and occupations. The essential concern is with the social roles which individuals play in the industrial structure or in specific types of work organisation, and the implications that these roles have for them as persons. In this chapter we deal with some salient features of the labour force, the mobility of labour and the problem of redundancy, correlates of occupational membership, the process by which some occupations come to be recognised as professions, and the comparatively new question of seeking improvements in the quality of working life.
