affluent worker

affluent worker

the new type of affluent manual worker (see AFFLUENT SOCIETY), said to be distinguished by new patterns of voting behaviour and detachment from ‘traditional’ working-class loyalties and movement from ‘traditional’ working-class locations. This EMBOURGEOISEMENT THESIS, however, was challenged in a major study of the CLASS LOCATIONS and CLASS IMAGERY of industrial workers by GOLDTHORPE, LOCKWOOD, et al. (1968a &b, 1969).