Economic Gratification Patterns of Fishermen and Millworkers in New England

Abstract
The paper tests several hypotheses concerning the correlates of economic gratification orientations among fishermen and mill workers in southern New England. The findings indicate that economic gratification orientations are related to occupation, temporal perspective, and ethnicity. It is suggested that economic gratification patterns are influenced by periodicity of income and perceived access to the means of production, two factors intimately related to occupation.