Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ethnography -- Should I stay or should I go? -- Work ethic 1 -- Work ethic 2 -- The food chain -- Means ends -- What goes around comes around -- Fragile beings -- The word -- Critical realism and public housing -- From manifest phenomena to generative structures -- Class as the production of scarcity: wage, price, debt, food -- Women and the affective domain of the Bridgetown Estate -- Class geography: part of no part -- References -- Index
Summary
This ground-breaking and compelling book shows in fine detail the life struggles of those who live on a public housing estate in Dublin. Combining long-term research into residents' lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on February 08, 2023)