ABSTRACT
In his writings on industrial relations John Goldthorpe has presented a sustained critique of major arguments and orthodoxies which fail to take sufficient account of the influence of social stratification on worker attitudes, systems of industrial control and the institutions which mediate relations between employees and managements. The common strand running through Goldthorpe’s writings on industrial relations—defined thus broadly—is a concern with the effects of social inequality and class formation on social integration in industrial life.
