The Affluent Worker
The Affluent Worker
David Lockwood, University of Essex
Frank Bechhofer, University of Edinburgh
Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex
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USDThis 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 details
December 1968Paperback
9780521095266
104 pages
229 × 152 × 63 mm
1.65kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Party choice and political orientations
- 3. The politics of affluence
- 4. Politics and group affiliations
- 5. Conclusions
- Appendixes
- References
- Index.
