One a Blue-Collar Worker, Always a Blue-Collar Worker?.

Dwight, Alice Heasley

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ERIC Number: EJ181202

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Publication Date: 1978

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One a Blue-Collar Worker, Always a Blue-Collar Worker?

Dwight, Alice Heasley

Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 26, 4, 318-25, Jun 78

There are many blue-collar workers who aspire to work in the white-collar world. Work histories of employed adults from an industrial area of Baltimore who were classified as Realistic (based on the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory) show most adults are apparently unable to move out of this classification. (Author)

Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Occupational Aspiration, Research Projects, Vocational Interests, Work Experience

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