De ongeschoolde arbeider. Een sociologische analyse.

This report is the result of an enquiry into the attitudes and social behaviour of the unskilled worker. The enquiry was carried out in a number of Netherlands towns and rural areas, and consisted mainly of the interviewing of unskilled workers, of their wives, and of persons who, by virtue of their occupation, have a task to perform in the unskilled workers' milieu: foremen, social workers, teachers, civil servants, union officials, youth-leaders, ministers of religion, etc. In part I of this study a description is given of the life of unskilled workers based on these interviews and on the results of personal observation. Empirical enquiry confirmed the hypothesis which initiated it, viz. that "the unskilled workers form the nucleus of a social class in which many give evidence, by behaviour which is not in accordance with the bourgeois group-norms, of the fact that they either are not aware of, or do not acknowledge, the traditional social norms in the Netherlands". ... Zie: Summary