Detroit area study, 1961
Subtitle: work group influence and political participation
By: principal investigators, Warren Miller and Donald Stokes
Series: ICPSR -- 7285; ICPSR (Series) -- 7285
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Automobile industry workers; Attitudes; Labor unions; Public opinion; Politics and government
Other titles: Work group influence and political participation.
Description: As part of the 1960-1961 Detroit Area Study, 419 workers were interviewed in the winter of 1961. The workers were members of the United Auto Workers union. Respondents were asked how long they had worked on their job, what their job duties were, and whether they were satisfied with their job. Another set of questions covered their length of union membership, their union activity, their conceptions of what the role of their union should be and their satisfaction with the job their union was doing. Political questions covered the good and bad points of political parties, the Kennedy-Nixon debates, the political issues facing the nation, party identification, past and present vote in state and national elections, and political participation. The social structure of the work group was probed and the respondent was questioned about the importance of politics in work group relationships. Demographic variables included class, age, organizational membership, religion, education, occupation, income, and race.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: winter 1961.

Detroit, Michigan.

419 respondents.