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The data are thus most useful as a sign of broad trends. They suggest that there was a modest but steady advance by the poorest 80 per cent in the fifty years to the mid-1970s. As we will see in Chapter 7, however, some of this gain has been lost through economic crisis and government action in the last decade. The Changing Social Structure 19 The problem of estimating changes in the distribution of wealth has been further complicated in recent years by important alterations in the ownership of 'productive' wealth, notably shares in publicly quoted companies.
The vast majority of nonwhites in employment are working in low-grade manual jobs. Even 26 Politics and Society in Britain among Asians, popularly caricatured as concentrated in small businesses, only about 8 per cent are self-employed (Miles and Phizacklea, 1977). This simple sketch of the changing labour market reveals several important features. The complex occupational hierarchy created by the early stages of industrialism has been further refined by economic and social change. The pattern classically associated with industrialism - numerical domination by a class of manual workers - has passed away.
Part of the reason for the subtlety of the connection is that changes in objective structures are filtered through a set of beliefs, rituals and patterns of behaviour; in short, through a culture. The nature of the political culture is the subject of the next chapter. 2 Political Culture and Political Instability The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 2 1 Outline In 1963 two American political scientists published the first systematic comparison of popular attitudes to political authority in Britain and in other Western democracies (Almond and Verba, 1963).