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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 |
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