ABSTRACT This article explores how social status and the exploitability of ethnic groups interplays with how employers ascribe skills and suitability to different nationalities through a historical case study of a regional two-tier segment of the Swedish post-war labour market. Drawing on previous research on the connections between social status, skills perceptions and labour market outcomes, the article argues for a more nuanced view where the specific economic and political circumstances play an important part in making employers perceive ethnic groups to be suitable for unskilled or skilled industrial work. The results show that nationalities that initially had a comparatively high social status could quickly lose any labour market privilege in a labour market segment if circumstances made them exploitable at the same time as employers perceived them to lack skills suitable for skilled industrial work.

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合适的、可利用的或不受欢迎的：雇主对战后瑞典中部制造业移民工人的看法和分类

摘要 本文通过对瑞典战后劳动力市场的区域两级部分的历史案例研究，探讨了社会地位和种族群体的可剥削性如何与雇主如何将技能和适合性分配给不同国籍的人之间相互作用。借鉴之前关于社会地位、技能认知和劳动力市场结果之间联系的研究，本文主张一种更细致入微的观点，即特定的经济和政治环境在使雇主认为种族群体适合无技能或有技能的工作方面发挥着重要作用。工业工作。