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... working - class people save ; the increased tendency of working - class women to work , so that most families are now two - income families ; and a continuation of the tradition of long hours of work - a tradition which is peculiarly ...
... working - class people save ; the increased tendency of working - class women to work , so that most families are now two - income families ; and a continuation of the tradition of long hours of work - a tradition which is peculiarly ...
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... class were home owners . The spread of owner occupation also affects the worker's style of life and his ideology ... working - class wards the proportion of manual workers voting Labour was significantly above the average for the ...
... class were home owners . The spread of owner occupation also affects the worker's style of life and his ideology ... working - class wards the proportion of manual workers voting Labour was significantly above the average for the ...
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... working - class ' most widely accepted by workers comprises those who work with their hands , ( and this is also the ... working class . In the Goldthorpe study and in my own , about one third did not consider themselves as working class ...
... working - class ' most widely accepted by workers comprises those who work with their hands , ( and this is also the ... working class . In the Goldthorpe study and in my own , about one third did not consider themselves as working class ...
Contents
Foreword by John Vaizey | 7 |
PART ONE 1 Embourgeoisement | 20 |
DeBourgeoisement | 45 |
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acquisitive society acquisitive tendencies affluence apathy attitudes become benefits Britain British society bureaucratic Burke's law capitalism cent centre collective acquisitiveness concept conflict consciousness consumer consumerism convergence countervailing power culture decline dividends effect egalitarianism embourgeoisement employers ethos excessive wage claims expenditure factor false consciousness household ideology incomes policy increase industrial relations inflation interest labour force Labour Party large sections legislation managerial manual workers market system middle classes middle-class values mixed economy myth national economy nationalized industries negative power non-manual Notes to Chapter old acquisitiveness oligarchy pension percentage permissive society political pressure groups private sector process of embourgeoisement production professional profits Protestant ethic public enterprise public sector real terms redundancies rise shareholders shift social contract social mobility social parasitism socio-economic standard status statutory stratum strikes trade union movement trade unions trends under-privileged unofficial Welfare white-collar white-collar workers working-class
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Council Housing and Culture: The History of a Social Experiment Alison Ravetz No preview available - 2001 |