In the middle were the skilled crafts workers, clerks and administrators (36percentt).
It shows how meanings, functions, and structures develop in social and temporal context and how professions, in the restricted sense of the term, differ from the status groups and occupations of entrepreneurs, merchants and clerks, skilled manual workers (crafts, métiers) and the so-called semi-profession.
"I just remember him as being a very skilled, intellectually gifted clerk," O'Connor said.
As a longtime record store clerk skilled in making difficult categorical judgments that regularly withstood managerial and customer scrutiny, though, I'm confident in my skills.
A skilled data entry clerk entered results from questionnaire surveys and medical assessments obtained from participants who underwent examinations at the health promotion center.
The proportions of the mothers having high-position (professionals, entrepreneurs, managers or administrative employees), middle-position (small shop owners, clerks, or skilled workers), and low-position (non-skilled workers or unemployed persons) occupations were 13%, 29%, and 58%, respectively.
Initiatives in education meant that young women were finding new ways of entering the skilled employment market as clerks and commercial artists as well as qualified teachers.
Those working audiences also gave reading its new degree of popularity, as hordes of commuters began reading books on their way into work (Horn lists "skilled workers, small shopkeepers, clerks, and the higher grade of domestic servants" among this new reading group).
Examples of occupations in each SEP group include professionals, teachers, and university and yeshiva students classified as high SEP; soldiers, clerks, and skilled agricultural workers classified as middle SEP; and unskilled agricultural and industrial workers classified as low SEP [ 33].
The latter group is sub-grouped according to the average educational level required for any particular occupation, yielding five occupational categories: unskilled manual worker, skilled manual worker, low-level clerk, intermediate level clerk, high level clerk.
