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The Working Environment

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In this chapter some of the objective conditions that the young people encountered on entering work are described and some of their reactions to these conditions are considered.

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Notes and References

  1. Lockwood, D. (1958) The Blackcoated Worker (London, Allen & Unwin) p.205.

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  2. Carter, M. (1966) Into Work (Harmondsworth, Penguin) p. 169.

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  3. International Labour Organisation (1977) Young People and Their Working Environment (Geneva).

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  4. Maizels, J. (1970) Adolescent Needs and the Transition from School to Work (London, Athlone Press).

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  5. Liepmann, K. (1944) The Journey to Work (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul).

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  6. A similar list of facilities was used in the national survey of poverty: Townsend, P. (1979) Poverty in the United Kingdom (Harmondsworth, Penguin).

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  7. Brittan, A. (1977) The Privatised World (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul) esp. chap. 3.

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  8. Ashton, D. N. and Field, D. (1976) Young Workers (London, Hutchinson) pp.100–1.

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  9. Thomas, R. and Wetherell, D. (1974) Looking Forward to Work (London, HMSO) p.335.

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  10. Lockwood, D. (1966) ‘Sources of variations in working class images of society’, Sociological Review, vol. 14, pp.249–67;

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  11. Goldthorpe, J. et al. (1968) The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour (Cambridge University Press).

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  1. University of Sheffield, UK

    Alan Walker

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Walker, A. (1982). The Working Environment. In: Unqualified and Underemployed. National Children’s Bureau series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16687-9_5

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