The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour

A study of affluent workers, employees of major industrial concerns giving an account of their advanced personnel and labour relations policies.

John H. Goldthorpe (Author), David Lockwood (Author), Frank Bechhofer (Author), Jennifer Platt (Author)

9780521094665, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 July 1968

216 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.32 kg

The affluent workers studied in this book, originally published in 1968, were employees of three major industrial concerns sited in Luton at the time. The three firms were selected as being amongst Luton's best-paying employers and also on account of their advanced personnel and labour relations policies. This choice enabled comparisons to be made between workers engaged in very different types of production system. On the basis of material from interviews and other data, the authors examine in detail workers' experience of their industrial jobs, their relations with workmates, and the nature of their attachment both to the organizations which employ them and to their trade unions. This study forms part of a larger project which was aimed at testing empirically the thesis, which was most prevalent 1968, that of the progressive assimilation of manual workers and their families into the pattern of middle class social life.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The worker and his job
3. The worker and his work group
4. The worker and his firm
5. The worker and his union
6. the worker and his economic future
7. Orientation to work and its social correlates
8. Conclusion
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Labour economics [KCF]