Occupational Experience and Social Consciousness (Machine Fitters, Berlin)

Occupational career, job situation and attitude to topics of company
co-determination among machine fitters.

Topics: Occupational position and occupational mobility; job situation
during apprenticeship; assessment of the usefulness of the
apprenticeship for occupational career; attitude to occupational
further education; characterization of one´s own job as well as
description of job situation; general work satisfaction (scale);
general characterization of company and satisfaction with company;
achievement-based pay and satisfaction with income; job preferences;
current activity exercised and general advancement orientation;
interest in a position as superior; attitude to technical progress and
personal impact of rationalization measures; attitudes to company
democracy; success and rights of the works council; willingness to be a
candidate for works council member or union representative; attitude to
co-determination with equal rights on the board, to self-administration
of the company by workers and employees, to participation in decisions
by teams on matters of their job and to strikes; assessment of the
co-determination ability of workers´ representatives; assessment of the
ability to avoid unemployment and attitude to conditions of social
rule; social-political orientation; general attitude to entrepreneurs;
assessment of salary differences between workers and employees;
assessment of the power of the trade unions; attitude to strikes as
trade union means to achieve their demands; willingness to participate
in a strike; judgement on lock-out; personal political interest and
political interest of parents; attitude of parents to trade unions;
membership in a trade union and a youth group; attitude to social
problems; wage form; proportion of overtime in income; changing shift;
company size; housing situation; daily newspapers and monthly magazines
read.

Demography: age (classified); marital status; number of children;
school education; vocational training; further education; occupation;
professional position; professional career; type of company; income;
social origins; present and past offices held; social surroundings.

Interviewer rating: place of interview; length of interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate.

Additionally the following was collected from files of the chamber of
commerce: company doing the training; apprenticeship length; crediting
other training towards the prescribed apprenticeship time; grades of
apprenticeship final examination and repetition of test.