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Word: ferdynand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today only one man in three has the same social status his father held; only one in every four sons of unskilled workers is himself unskilled. "Many manual workers," reports a Labor Ministry survey -on spending, "have habits and tastes which formerly were regarded as middle class." But Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig, researching a study of "The Worker in an Affluent Society," found that the new-habits and tastes are largely material. The working class is spending little of its new income on intellectual self-improvement. About 60% neither knew nor cared about Karl Marx (who had direly predicted their growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Affluent Ex-Proletariat | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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