Books in the Cambridge Studies in Sociology series

This final book in The Affluent Worker series was originally published in 1969. It contains the findings and conclusions on the issues the research was specifically designed to investigate - the extent of working class embourgeoisment. This thesis is examined in the several contexts of work, sociability, social aspirations and imagery.

This book tells the story of the complete move in 1965/1966 of Alfred Bird and Sons Limited from central Birmingham to Banbury, in which a large proportion of the labour force was successfully transferred. Focusing on the relocation decision made by individual employees, the author also contributed to many varied areas of debate.

Robert Reiner addresses the way in which police unions had become increasingly militant and formed a significant political force, demanding better pay, conditions and a say in social and penal policy. This 1978 study considers the development of British police unionization, and the views of the police themselves towards unionism.

This book represents an advance in our knowledge of the labour market. For the first time it demonstrates the segmented character of the youth labour market and the significance of the local labour markets.

Originally published in 1970, this book deals with the problems of men aged 35-40 who have invested half a work-life in one type of career and may now be at a turning-point. It juxtaposes the viewpoints of senior management and the man whose career is simultaneously a building block in a task-centred system and the repository of his identity.

An analysis of change in the middle levels of the American class structure. Dr Mackenzie's study is designed to test the common assertion in the press and in recent American academic sociology that the line separating the working class from the middle class is becoming increasingly blurred.

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 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 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.