ABSTRACT
The relationship between the work and non-work aspects of our lives is complex and two-way. At the highest level of generality the two spheres interrelate to form a particular type of society, the industrial capitalist type examined in Chapter 3 being the one with which we are concerned. Work arrangements are located in the power structures and cultural understandings of the wider society with social class, family, education and other social structural factors having a major influence on individuals’ prior orientation to work as well as on their socially conditioned predisposition to act and think in a certain way once in work.
