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  • And all parties avoid one inconvenient fact raised by Oxford's John Goldthorpe: social mobility goes both ways.

    Money busts the convenient myth that social class is dead | Polly Toynbee 2011

  • Some of these sociologists, like Goldthorpe and Locker (in 1968), studied affluent car workers in Luton in order to reinforce their theory of the embourgouisement of the working class - they argued that the new, affluent working class had been bought off by high wages and no longer found themselves in conflict with capitalism.

    Are You A Communitarian ? Newmania 2008

  • Goldthorpe said there were very few good copies in private hands and only two other textually complete copies with such an early binding.

    World's most expensive book comes up for sale 2010

  • Yet he does not mention that the same Vauxhall workers interviewed by Goldthorpe, shortly after his conclusions were made public, walked off the job in a massive wildcat strike.

    Worker Self-Management Case, John 1971

  • Dahl cites approvingly the British study by Goldthorpe et al. indicating that blue-collar workers are "consumption-oriented, acquisitive, privatistic and family-centered."

    Worker Self-Management Case, John 1971

  • She had only gathered that he wasn't athletic like Goldthorpe (Bruce's golf companion), and that he wasn't in the Foreign Office, and didn't belong to Bruce's club.

    Love's Shadow Ada Leverson 1897

  • Goldthorpe could not resist the opportunity thus offered.

    The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

  • Goldthorpe gave only a glance at this still life; his interest was engrossed by a human figure, seated on a campstool near the back wall of the house, and holding a concertina, whence, at this moment, in slow, melancholy strain, 'Home, Sweet Home' began to wheeze forth.

    The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

  • 'About a fortnight more,' answered Goldthorpe with grave intensity.

    The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

  • Exploring one of these, Goldthorpe found that there lay in the rear a tract of gardens.

    The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

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