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  • The Symmetrical Family

    A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region

    by Michael Young, Peter Willmott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The argument is that a new style of family life has emerged. Its basis is not equality between husbands and wives but at least something approaching symmetry: ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Adolescent Boys of East London

    by Peter Willmott ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
    Originally published in 1966, this is a sociological study of boys growing up in East London. Previous books from the Institute of Community Studies had looked at the lives of other residents of Bethnal Green – couples with young children, middle-aged ‘Mums’, old people, widows. Now the subject is adolescent boys – a study of them not in isolation nor primarily as a ‘problem’ group but as young ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Evolution of a Community

    A Study of Dagenham After Forty Years

    by Peter Willmott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In earlier studies, Peter Willmott and other investigators had documented the social problems of new housing estates – the loneliness, the tensions, the disruption of family and neighbourhood ties. But how far are such troubles transitory? What kind of life would develop in communities like these when time had rubbed off the newness?Originally published in 1963, in search of an answer, Peter ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Family and Class in a London Suburb

    by Peter Willmott, Michael Young ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Family
    Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb. Here families were more often on their own than in the East End, but, despite the differences between the districts, there were some similarities. The bond between mother and married daughter was almost as strong in the suburb as in the city. Most old ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Inner City Poverty in Paris and London

    by Charles Madge, Peter Willmott ...
    Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centres are neighbourhoods where ordinairy people have their homes, often living in poverty and sometimes in squalor. Two such neighbourhoods were Stockwell in London and Folie-Mericourt in Paris, and are ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Family and Kinship in East London

    by Michael Young, Peter Wilmott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies.A standard text in planning, housing, family studies and sociology, it predicted the failure in social terms of the great rehousing campaign which was getting under way in the 1950s. The tall flats built to ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • British Society Since 1945

    The Penguin Social History of Britain

    by Arthur Marwick ...
    High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text.'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Quarriers Story

    One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada

    by Anna Magnusson ...
    In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier’s Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields of Renfrewshire. Since these beginnings, Quarriers has cared for more than 40,000 children in need. It ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Campbell Bunk

    The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars

    by Jerry White ...
    From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. It was the object of reform by church, magistrates, local authorities, and social scientists, who left many traces of their attempts to improve what became known as 'the ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • England: A Class of Its Own

    An Outsider's View

    by Professor Detlev Piltz ...
    A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective.For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz has been observing England, its life, customs and above all its classes. He argues that whenever an English person meets another, they will immediately try and place the individual they are talking to in a class by their speech, deportment, clothing, ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • Oxford Town and Gown

    by Peter Collison ...
    Oxford: Town and Gown is a unique look at the relationships between universities and their local communities, the result of a wide-ranging sociological survey carried out by Peter Collison in 1960s Oxford, at the pivotal moment when the world depicted by authors like Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Hardy changed forever. Surveys carried out at the same time in York and Reading, two university towns of ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • An Unconsidered People

    The Irish in London - Updated Edition

    by Catherine Dunne ...
    New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter.Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home was for good. Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation to make their lives ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus