The Affluent Worker by John H Goldthorpe
This 1968 volume, the second of The Affluent Worker monographs, reports on the voting and political attitudes of highly paid manual workers. As in the first book, the affluent workers studied are employed in Luton, a town which benefited faster and more consistently than almost any other in Britain from the economic progress of the 'fifties and early 'sixties. The sample was chosen as a 'critical' case to test some widely accepted views on the assimilation of the working classes into patterns of middle-class social life. On the basis of material from interviews, the authors give an account of the workers' political orientations, and this is followed by an analysis of voting in relationship to income house ownership, social origin and trade union membership. The main findings - that, despite their affluence, the majority of these workers remain staunch supporters of the Labour Party - runs counter to contemporary beliefs about working-class embourgeoisement.
Bechhofer, Frank: - Frank Bechhofer is Emeritus Professor of Social Research at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute of Governance. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a co-author of The Affluent Worker (Cambridge University Press, 1968 and 1969), Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences, (2000, with Lindsay Paterson) and The Petite Bourgeoisie: Comparative Studies of the Uneasy Stratum (1981, edited with Brian Elliott).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521095266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521095263 |
| Title | The Affluent Worker |
| Author | John H Goldthorpe |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Sociology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1968-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
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