| Description |
ix, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part One. Past and present ways of work. 1. Households, work and ideology in pre-industrial times -- 2. Patterns of work before the dominance of wage labour -- 3. Women, work and social change -- 4. Work outside employment -- 5. New ways of looking at work -- Part Two. Household divisions of labour. 6. Portrait of an industrial island -- 7. Myth and reality in Sheppey in the 1980s -- 8. Class, the domestic cycle and sources of labour -- 9. The divisions of labour of households -- 10. The domestic division of labour between partners in households -- 11. Polarization of workers' lives: Jim and Linda; Beryl and George -- Part Three. Work in a wider context. 12. Households, work and society -- Appendix. Getting by in everyday life: two case studies |
| Analysis |
Work |
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Work - Sociological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [343]-355 |
| Subject |
Division of labor -- History.
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Division of labor.
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Industrial sociology.
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Labor movement.
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Labor.
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Work -- History.
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Work.
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Working class -- England -- Sheppey, Isle of -- Case studies.
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Working class.
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| LC no. |
84011092 |
| ISBN |
0631132732 |
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0631132740 |
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