Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

white-collar sweatshop  

Definition

  • Employment in large organizations has undergone significant change in recent decades. During the postwar “golden age” of the expansion of capitalism, large organizations such as publicly listed corporations and state-run bureaucracies offered long-term, stable employment to blue-collar workers and even more so to white-collar workers. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; White-Collar Sweatshop]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/white-collar_sweatshop

Download this concept: