Households, Work and Economic Change: A Comparative Institutional Perspective Book

	List of contributors	xiii
	Foreword	xv
	Economic and social change	xv
	Readers' guide	xviii
	Acknowledgements	xxi
	Introduction: Institutional transformation	1
	Household, work and gender in transformation	1
	Games and habits	2
	The institutional approach and embedding change	4
	Households, work and economic change	8
Part I	The Significance of the Household in its Macro Context
Chapter 1	Perspectives on the household in a changing economy	13
	Overview	13
	Economics and sociology: divorce and remarriage?	17
	Approaches to deregulation and economic change: where is the household?	24
	Recognising and locating the household: seeing the whole economy	27
	Changing livelihoods and meanings: global and local	30
	The remarriage: replacing the old order of the male breadwinner?	34
Chapter 2	Behind the lace curtains	37
	States, markets and households	37
	Identifying the household	41
	Household flourishing	44
	Changing meanings and values	46
	Working towards the future	49
	Conclusions	52
Chapter 3	Social security, employment and the household	53
	Introduction: institutional stresses	53
	Social insurance as a basis for income maintenance	55
	Social assistance and means tests: equality with efficiency?	57
	Institutional inconsistencies	58
	Income maintenance systems in practice: who gains and who loses?	59
	Households, gender divisions and the 'group' model	61
	Conclusions	62
Part II	Economic Restructuring, Labour Market Change and the Household	65
Chapter 4	British market-led restructuring: a case study of Wearside	71
	Introduction	71
	Economic and policy context	72
	Wearside: background
	Local regeneration policies
	Deindustrialisation and labour market shock	75
	Shipbuilding and marine engineering
	UK and overseas owned branch plants
	Indigenous firms
	Coalmining
	Services
	Labour market adjustment to economic restructuring	79
	Numbers in employment
	Population change
	Economically active population
	Unemployment
	Conclusions	83
Chapter 5	Corporatist restructuring: a Scandinavian case study	85
	Flashback: constructing corporatism	86
	Corporatist restructuring	91
	Structural changes	95
	Corporatist and market-led restructuring compared	99
Part III	Changing Lives and Livelihoods
Section A	Household responses to industrial change and unemployment	103
Chapter 6	The family and the social division of labour during industrial restructuring	107
	Local historical and cultural contexts	108
	The effects of industrial restructuring on everyday life	109
	Gender identity and the division of labour	110
	Continuity and change in gender divisions	111
Chapter 7	Gender responses to male unemployment; or, is Andy Capp dead?	113
	Introduction	113
	Classifying differences	114
	No easy option	117
	Dignity in the face of change	118
Chapter 8	Reflecting flexibility: from the security of regular employment to coping with casual work	121
	The changing local economy	121
	Flexible firms, flexible households, reflexive workers?	122
	Work and household experiences for temporary workers	123
	John (35), a steelworker seeking a new career
	Henry (39), a joinery worker using skills in the informal economy
	Heidi (32), a welder coping with casual work in different segments of the labour market
	Martin (40), a carpenter tied to his workplace and hard hit by new manpower policies
	Household adaptations	128
	Reflecting flexibility	130
Section B	Changes in family and household based production	133
Chapter 9	'Nationalisation' of rural households? New teams for old tasks in agricultural households	137
	Introduction	137
	The local setting	138
	Farm work: from household work to one man's work	139
	Housework: from women's work to household work	143
	Changes in tasks and teams	145
Chapter 10	Economic restructuring, environmental consciousness and farm family succession in Britain	147
	Introduction	147
	Succession and family farming	148
	Succession and the environmental consciousness in agriculture	151
	Conclusions	156
Chapter 11	Survival and flexibility in the urban small business household	157
	Local economic development and small business households	157
	A model of flexibility	158
	The costs and benefits of flexibility for the small business household	162
	Conclusions: surviving economic change	163
Section C	Shifting youth transitions and identities	167
Chapter 12	From shipyards to nightclubs: the restructuring of young 'Geordie' work, home and consumption identities	173
	Introduction	173
	Young adults and the meaning of post-industrial work	174
	Home sweet home? Negotiating work and consumption	177
	From shipyards to nightclubs: youth cultural identification in the post-industrial city	181
	Conclusion	184
Chapter 13	Marginalised young men and successful young women: young people entering adulthood	187
	Introduction	187
	Young men choosing a traditional working career	189
	Young women making modern choices	191
	The struggles of young men versus the success of young women	192
	Conclusions Changing economies, changing households	195
	Summing up	195
	Institutional comparisons: empirical analysis	197
	Theoretical implications	201
	Policy implications	204
	Bibliography	207
	Index	231