Shoemakers

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.