Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:> <http://bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/apr/wk4/art03.htm>
Carrol Cox wrote:
>How are supervisory employees defined? If they include, for example, >such employees as the four managers assigned to Red Lobster restaurants, >quite a few of those supervisory employees are probably nearer the >second than the fifth quintile. 18 hour days for barely more than their >waitresses get.
About one in five workers have supervisory role
Research indicates that approximately 1 in 5 full-time workers has some level of supervisory responsibility. About 9 percent are team leaders, 10 percent are first-line supervisors, 2 percent are second-line managers and fewer than 1 percent are third-line executives.
This is not real important, because when one is trying to get a grip on class-dynamics in nation of 300 million or so one can't worry about 5% here or there, and 80% working class would eliminate a lot of blue-collar romanticism from thinking about class. That said, It would be interesting to have some knowledge of the 9% "team leaders" and some proportion of the 10% supervisors.
At Wal-Mart, my resident expert tells me, the low-level managers, whose lives are working-class in many ways (nature of tasks and level of income, for example), still identify with the company more than the workers.
I wonder how much difference it would make to include local, state, & federal employees.
If you'd followed the link above, you'd have learned:
The share of workers that have supervisory duties is not appreciably different between private industry and State and local governments. Within more specific industry divisions, the industries with the highest percentage of supervisors are construction, public administration, and finance, insurance and real estate.
Doug
