The Affluent Worker - Political Attitudes and Behaviour

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

List 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Bechhofer, John H. Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, David Dr Lockwood
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521095266
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09526-6
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 164 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Sociology; Cambridge Studies in Sociology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education