Skilled Workers in the Class Structure (Paperback)

List of tables, diagrams and models; Acknowledgements; Part I. Debates and Definitions: 1. Orientations to the analysis of class in Britain; 2. The traditional working class; 3. The labour aristocracy; 4. Theoretical orientations to skill; 5. Aspects of the social structure of Rochdale, 1856?1964; Part II. The Economic Structuration of Class: 6. The trade union structure in the Rochdale cotton and engineering industries; 7. The course of wage differentials in Rochdale during the period 1856?1964; 8. Skilled manual workers in the labour process; Part III. The Social Structuration of Class: 9. Classes, strata and occupations; 10. Class analysis and marital endogamy; 11. Intermarriage in Rochdale: class endogamy of brides and grooms; 12. Intermarriage in Rochdale: class endogamy of fathers of brides and fathers of grooms; 13. Skilled manual workers in the British class structure; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.