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The project had the following aims: to provide a sociologically relevant description of shipbuilding workers as a particular occupational category, and to compare their attitudes and behaviour with those of workers in other industries of which there are sociological studies; to consider two sets of factors which influence the attitudes and behaviour of shipbuilding workers and to assess their relative importance: the technology and organisation of production in a “craft” industry, and the “orientation to work” of workers coming from traditional working class communities.

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This dataset is available as a Microsoft ACCESS database or as a collection of  Excel or text format data files. The study comprises 223 interviews undertaken between 1968 and 1969 with Tyneside shipbuilding workers. There was one questionnaire per worker and these have been added to a database that conforms to the original form of the questionnaire, with the exception of one question relating to workers’ holidays, which was excluded.

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