The Affluent Worker: political attitudes and behaviour

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

ISBN 10: 0521095263 / ISBN 13: 9780521095266

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968

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First printing of this 8vo paperback edition - Cambridge Studies in Sociology 2. Pp vii + 94. Name of ownership in ink on the half-title else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Light diagonal crease to the bottom corner of lower wrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Affluent Worker: political attitudes and behaviour
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521095263
• ISBN 13: 9780521095266
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: near Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Science

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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.

Product Description

viii 96p large paperback blue cover, a well preserved Cambridge library copy with bookplate and shelfmark, very good