The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour by John H Goldthorpe

The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour by John H Goldthorpe

The affluent workers studied in this book, originally published in 1968, were employees of three major industrial concerns sited in Luton at the time. The three firms were selected as being amongst Luton's best-paying employers and also on account of their advanced personnel and labour relations policies. This choice enabled comparisons to be made between workers engaged in very different types of production system. On the basis of material from interviews and other data, the authors examine in detail workers' experience of their industrial jobs, their relations with workmates, and the nature of their attachment both to the organizations which employ them and to their trade unions. This study forms part of a larger project which was aimed at testing empirically the thesis, which was most prevalent 1968, that of the progressive assimilation of manual workers and their families into the pattern of middle class social life.

Goldthorpe, John H.: - John H. Goldthorpe is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He has written extensively on social class and social mobility since the 1960s.

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ISBN 13	9780521071093
ISBN 10	0521071097
Title	The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour
Author	John H Goldthorpe
Series	Cambridge Studies In Sociology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1968-07-01
Number of pages	213
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