The Affluent Worker: Political attitudes and behaviour (Cambridge Studies in Sociology, Series Number 2) - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521072042 ISBN 13: 9780521072045

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1968

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

This 1968 volume, the second of The Affluent Worker monographs, reports on the voting and political attitudes of highly paid manual workers in Luton. On the basis of material from interviews, the authors give an account of the workers' political orientations and analyse voting in relationship to income house ownership, social origin and trade union membership.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521072042
• ISBN 13: 9780521072045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1