The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour

by John H. Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521095263
• ISBN13: 9780521095266
• Release Date: December 1968
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"