ABSTRACT
The conception of the privatised worker was an attempt to consider the consequences for class images of the dissolution of the relatively closed types of local structures which harboured the traditional worker. The personal interaction of employer and worker is clearly one that brings into the conception of the traditional proletarian situation an element which has been taken as the crucial defining characteristic of the deferential worker; and in this case the consequences for social imagery of this extraneous' factor appear, as Moore has shown, to be considerable. Much more apparently alien to the formulation of the deferential worker is the idea of an encapsulated community', though on closer examination it turns out to be a property of the local status order which is implicit in one of the variables identified in the original paper. That such an element of ambivalence is not specific to the situation of the deferential worker is also very likely.
