Social Relations and Social Perspectives amongst Shipbuilding Workers-A Preliminary Statement

Part One

Bibliographic Data

ID2323984
AuthorsRichard Brown (0000-0002-3150-6958), Richard L Brown, Peter Brannen
Year1970
Volume4
Issue1
Pages71-84
Publication date1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/003803857000400104
OpenAlexW1998666175
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This paper examines the community situation of shipyard workers on Tyneside, certain aspects of their orientations to work and general social perspectives, and the relationship of these to each other and to the structure of social relations at work. In terms of their community situation shipyard workers would seem to come close to Lockwood's traditional proletarian type of worker. There is evidence to suggest, however, that these workers' social perspectives are not at all clearly traditional proletarian. The explanation for this is found, at least in part, in the much greater complexity of social relations at work than are accounted for in the model of traditional proletarianism. The paper suggests that existing typologies of the orientations and social perspectives of workers need to be refined by more detailed studies of the structural and relational aspects of both work and community situations. The paper concludes with a brief examination of changes in both industry and community and the likely effect of these on the social perspectives of shipbuilding workers

Political science · Proletariat · Public relations · Shipbuilding · Shipyard · Social relation · Social science · Social structure · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law