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Affluent Workers Revisited
Fiona Devine
其他書名
Privatism and the Working Class
出版Edinburgh University Press, 1992
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / International / Economics & TradeHistory / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN07486037009780748603701
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AUSyAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Fiona Devine's important new book offers a qualitative re-evaluation of the Affluent Worker study conducted by John Goldthorpe and his colleagues in Luton nearly thirty years ago. Drawing on her intensive interviews with Vauxhall workers and their wives, Devine examines the motivations, processes and consequences of geographical mobility and explores working-class lifestyles and the extent to which they may be described as privatised or communal. Contrary to the predictions of the older study, Devine's findings suggest that working-class lifestyles are neither exclusively family-centred, nor entirely home-centred. No evidence of a singular instrumentalism appears; instead aspirations for material well being form a crucial component of a collective working-class identity, with criticism of the trade unions and the Labour Party being directed at their failure to change the distribution of resources in Britain.