service class

service class

administrative workers who act as the servants of CAPITAL (Renner, 1953) or in any way function, as employees, as part of the complex administrative and authoritative apparatuses which today run modern private and public organizations (DAHRENDORF, 1959). As used by GOLDTHORPE et al. (1980), the concept refers to the entirety of members of higher professional, higher technical, administrative and managerial occupations. see also OCCUPATIONAL SCALES.