Shoemakers

Company situation and social situation of the shoemaker´s trade as well
as problems of accommodation to the realities of an advanced industrial
society.

Topics: professional prestige of the shoemaker´s trade; attitude to
self-employment; founding of the company; structure and size of
business; equipment with machines; employment of family members;
proportion of turnover of business; time worked each week; costing
procedure; attitude to expansion of the business; willingness to borrow
money and financing of investments; education and professional history;
reading of trade papers; professional further education; attitude to
bookkeeping; membership in a consumer´s cooperative society and in
guild; contact with professional colleagues; competition pressure; use
of advertising; evaluation of the social prestige of one´s own
profession; concepts of social class; political knowledge; leisure
activity and vacation; type of provision for old age; judgement on
trade tax burden; level of turnover; party preference; social origins.

Scales: attitude to the state, authoritarianism.

Demography: age (classified); marital status; number of children; ages of children
(classified); school education; vocational training; professional career; possession of durable economic goods; membership.

Interviewer rating: situation of the business; impression of the
business premises and owner; willingness to cooperate; sincerity of
responses; interview surroundings; length of interview; presence of
other persons.