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Which workers did Goldthorpe study for his key study?

Manual car workers at the Vauxhall factory in Luton in the 1960s.

To test the embourgeoisement thesis. This asked if better-off manual workers were becoming middle class.

The idea that rising wages make working-class people take on middle-class lifestyles and values.

He used questionnaires and interviews to gather data about work, family and politics.

Most workers still saw themselves as working class, not middle class.

Being home-centred and seeing work mainly as a way to earn money for the family.

Leisure was mostly at home with family, with spending on the house, TV and car, not on community life.

Many had an instrumental attitude. Work was a means to an end, not a source of pride or identity.

There was no big shift to middle-class politics. Many workers still supported the Labour Party.

Affluence had grown but class divisions remained. The embourgeoisement thesis was not supported.