Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Work and the Family (Explorations in Sociology)

This is a collection of new writings in sociology and history demonstrating the interplay between working lives and domestic lives - between the public and private worlds. This is one of four volumes of selected essays from the 1988 British Sociological Conference, "History and Sociology", and the contributors all recognize the mutually beneficial relationship between the two disciplines. The essays are also linked by a theoretical conviction that the past and present are an interactive process, and by the understanding that an analysis of gender identities and divisions is central to this study. The editors have also co-edited "The State, Private Lives and Political Change".