EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS AND THE MENTAL‐MANUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR Available to Purchase

While the literature available shows that indicators of educational success are the most proximate influences deciding occupational class at the beginning of workers' careers, there are still many unsettled issues as to exactly why education is important for the reproduction of social classes. An unimportant, relatively unexplored facet of this problem is how educational criteria are used by employers, unions, professional associations and licensing boards — the decisions of these groups being essential elements in the process by which individuals are admitted to occupational classes.