Lorry Driver Ils 154This is Volume V of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1968, this is a study in occupational sociology and looks at status and role of the lorry driver, and the consequences of industrial structure provided by the analysis of the observed behaviour and recorded attitudes of a sample of this group of workers. |
Contents
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The Lorry Drivers Career | 57 |
The Mobile Technical System | 84 |
Organisation and the Lorry Driver | 107 |
Occupation and Family Life | 138 |
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