ABSTRACT
John H. Goldthorpe has a special place in the development and standing of the discipline of sociology, both in Britain and internationally. This is due in no small measure to the quality and thematic importance of the research and book publications with which he has been associated, beginning with the three volumes of the Affluent Worker study (1968/69), followed by the elaboration of an innovative approach to The Social Grading of Occupations (1974) and two highly acclaimed edited volumes of international papers, The Political Economy of Inflation (1978) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1984).
