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and Trevor Noble `Social Mobility and Class Relations in Britain' , British Journal of Sociology 1972, XXA, pp. 422-436 .

reprinted in Maurice Craft (ed.) Family Class and Education: A Reader, Longman 1970, to which reference is made here.

A. Little and J. Westergaard op. cit. 1964, p. 303 and cf. Westergaard and Little 1967, p. 66.

1964 ibid. p. 302.

op. cit. 1967 pp. 65-66 (italics mine).

John H. Goldthorpe and David Lockwood `Affluence and the British Class Structure' , The Sociological Review, 1963, II, p. 137 .

D. G. Clark , The Industrial Manager-His Background and Career Pattern, London Business Publications 1966.

R. V. Clements , Managers: A Study of their Careers in Industry, Allen and Unwin 1958. The inclusion of a wider range of industry and in particular nationalized industries in Clark's sample may partially account for this difference.

Clark op. cit. 1966, p. 145.

See Joel Gerstl , `Social Origins of Engineers' , New Society, 6 June 1963, pp. 19-20 .

W. H. Scott , J. A. Banks , A. H. Halsey and T. Lupton , Technical Change and Industrial Relations, Liverpool University Press g956.

B. C. Roberts , Ray Loveridge , John Gennard et al. , Reluctant Militants, Heineman , 1972, p. 326 cf. pp. 297-306, 325.

ibid. p. 326.

These percentages were calculated from ibid. Tables 4.3, 7.7 and 7.8.

Samuel A. Stouffer , E. A. Suchman , L. C. DeVinney , Shirley A. Star and R. M. Williams Jr. , The American Soldier, Volume I: Adjustment During Army Life, Princeton University Press 1949, pp. 250-253.

D. J. Lee and I. Hordley , `Technical Education: An Alternative Route' , Technical Education, 1966, 8, pp. 394-395 .

D. J. Lee `Class Differentials in Educational Opportunity and Promotions from the Ranks' , Sociology, 1968, 2, p. 293-312 .

Irene Hordley and D. J. Lee `The "Alternative Route"-Social Change and Opportunity in Technical Education' , Sociology, 1970, 4, p. 42 .

See Annual Abstract of Statistics go, 1953, Table 86.

For some of the earlier details of this area of educational growth see Hordley and Lee op. cit. 1970, pp. 23-50.

Roberts et al. op. cit., 1972, p. 205.

An earlier study, G. Thomas , Labour Mobility in Great Britain 1945-1949, H.M.S.O. 1950 regrettably employed a set of occupational categories which it is hard to relate to our knowledge of the occupational structure and which do not permit comparison with more recent research.

J. W. B. Douglas , The Home and the School, McGibbon & Kee , 1964, Ch. VI, p. 70.

op. cit., 1967, p. 65.