dividual's sense of personal control is a factor in determining the level of interest and the degree of knowledge he will possess concerning his affairs. In the arena, for example, Lipset, Trow, and Coleman, have demonstrated the significance of the occupational community in the printers' unions.2' They have shown that active membership in the printers' clubs was associated with increased knowledge concerning party positions within the union. What this has to do, hypothetically, with alienation in the sense of personal control is nicely suggested by Kornhauser's remarks about such work associations:
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Jack P. Gibbs (1962) studied this question.