ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a contribution to the discussion of methods and perspectives which are useful in developing a better understanding of housing and labour market links. It provides a basis to identify the importance of employer assistance with housing in the housing histories of affluent home owners and contributes to discussion about interaction between housing and labour markets in another way. The various forms of assistance on offer through employment emerged as a significant feature of the housing histories of the affluent owners and one of the major factors differentiating them from the working-class histories. Access to housing has been regarded as determined by income and price and the links between housing and labour markets have been seen in terms of these rather than any other dimensions. The interviews were designed to provide a greater knowledge of social differentiation in home ownership but also to break away from traditional housing survey and provide different accounts of the experience of housing.
