Introduction

Guy Routh
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Guy Routh: University of Sussex

A chapter in Occupation and Pay in Great Britain 1906–79, 1980, pp 1-2 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For the fifty years between leaving school and retirement, man’s central activity is work. His work creates the wealth of society and entitles him to a share of that wealth; and the sort of work that he does is a major determinant of the size of his share. On this basic economic relationship of production and distribution, a complex of other relationships exists, for occupation is itself an important (though by no means the only) determinant of differences in morbidity, mortality, fertility, social outlook and political allegiance, while the occupation of the father, again, partly determines the occupations of his children and, in turn, his children’s children.1 It is to be expected, then, that those who follow a particular occupation should have common interests and a common destiny and should be drawn together to protect and promote those interests.

Keywords: Trade Union; Political Allegiance; Social Outlook; British Medical Association; Skilled Craftsman (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16364-9_1

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