ABSTRACT

In placing the Taipei respondents within the Taiwanese system of social stratification and class we have already compared changes in some aspects of occupations—occupational status and prestige, ownership/nonownership of the means of production, and the number of subordinates one has at work. We now turn to other aspects of work that are important, whether or not they are correlated with stratification and class. These include: unemployment, the bureaucratization of work in terms of the scale of the workplace, self-employment versus working for others, moonlighting, and job satisfaction. How have these things changed from 1963 to 1991?