The Affluent Worker

Political attitudes and behaviour

David Lockwood author John H Goldthorpe author Frank Bechhofer author Jennifer Platt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Dec '68

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In this 1968 volume the authors report on the voting and the political attitudes of a sample of highly-paid manual workers.

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.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.

ISBN: 9780521095266

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 63mm

Weight: 1650g

104 pages