The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour (Cambridge Studies in Sociology, Series Number 1) - Hardcover

Goldthorpe, John H.; Lockwood, David; Bechhofer, Frank; Platt, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521071097 ISBN 13: 9780521071093

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1968

Synopsis

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.

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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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521071097
• ISBN 13: 9780521071093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 213