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Author Porter, John, 1921-1979, author.

Title The vertical mosaic : an analysis of social class and power in Canada / John Porter.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1965.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 626 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in the structure of power: decision making in Canada, 0081-8690 ; 2
Studies in the structure of power, decision-making in Canada ; 2. 0081-8690
Contents ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""PART I: THE STRUCTURE OF CLASS""; ""I: Class and Power: The Major Themes""; ""The Canadian Middle Class Image""; ""The Ubiquity of Social Rank""; ""Classes: Real or Artificial Groups?""; ""The Experience of Social Class""; ""Class as Functional Inequality: The Conservative Ideology, ""; ""Marx and Theories of Class Conflict""; ""The Post-Marxian Industrial World""; ""Elites and Non-Elites""; ""II: Class, Mobility, and Migration""; ""Uncertain Growth""; ""Social Psychology of Population Instability""; ""Migration and Occupational Levels""
""Professions and Skills""""Mobility Deprivation through Educational Deprivation""; ""Importation of Skill: An Earlier Period""; ""Migration and Class Structure""; ""III: Ethnicity and Social Class""; ""Charter Groups and the Mythology of Race""; ""Entrance Status and Ethnic Segregation""; ""Ethnic Affiliation and Occupational Class""; ""British and French: Higher and Lower Charter Groups""; ""Religion and Class: A Note""; ""IV: Classes and Incomes""; ""Taxation Statistics""; ""Sample Surveys: Inequalities in Incomes and Assets""; ""Middle Class and Middle Majority""
""A Note on 1959 Income Distribution""""V: Rural Decline and New Urban Strata""; ""Historical Sketch""; ""Off-Farm Migration""; ""Inter-provincial Migration""; ""Shape of Class Structure""; ""VI: Social Class and Educational Opportunity""; ""Social Barriers""; ""Psychological Barriers""; ""Canadian Education, 1951 to 1961""; ""Class Origins of High School Students""; ""Class Origins of University Students""; ""Financial Considerations and School-Leaving""; ""Intelligence and Social Class""; ""PART II: THE STRUCTURE OF POWER""; ""VII: Elites and the Structure of Power""
""Social Necessity of Power""""Elites as the Holders of Power""; ""Degree of Co-ordination among Elites""; ""Recruitment of Elites""; ""The Collegia! Principle""; ""Elites and Their Bureaucracies""; ""The Legitimacy of Power""; ""VIII: The Concentration of Economic Power""; ""Some Measures of Concentration""; ""The Growth of the Larger Firms""; ""Social Structure and Economic Power""; ""Nuclei of Power""; ""IX: The Economic Elite and Social Structure""; ""An External Elite?""; ""Career Patterns and Education""; ""Ethnic and Religious Affiliation""; ""Class Origins""
""Political Affiliations""""Beyond the Board Room""; ""The Elite as a Homogeneous Group""; ""X: The Structure of Organized Labour""; ""Trade Unions and Corporations""; ""Social Movement and Market Unionism""; ""National Unionism and International Unionism""; ""Labour Divisions in Quebec""; ""Craft and Industrial Unionism""; ""XI: The Labour Elite""; ""Social and Class Origins""; ""Labour Leaders and Politics""; ""The Union Leader's Career""; ""Top- Rankers""; ""The French Syndicates""; ""XII: The Canadian Political System""; ""The Political System""
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Subject Social classes -- Canada.
Social classes.
Canada.
Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
Canada -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Porter, John, 1921-1979. Vertical mosaic. [Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1965] 0802013570 (DLC) 65003947 (OCoLC)256322
ISBN 9781442683044 (electronic book)
144268304X (electronic book)
9780802013576
0802013570
9780802060556
0802060552 (Paper)
0802013570