Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender

by Paul Bagguley, Jane Mark-Lawson, Dan Shapiro

Overview

The authors analyze the ways in which places have been transformed through the changes taking place within them - shifts in the nature and quantity of paid and unpaid work, in social and political mobilization, in cultural and aesthetic experience and in the built environment.

Using a locality study of Lancaster, they emphasize place as a decisive point in understanding social and economic changes. They consider how successfully concepts of ‘restructuring' explain the relation between local and global change. The book will be a major contribution to international debates on restructuring and the impact of global change on the locality. It will also be of interest to all social scientists interested in the sociology,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803982147
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/01/1990
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Change
The Case of Manufacturing
The Restructuring of Services
The Experience of Restructuring
Culture, Civil Society and Urban Form
Social Restructuring and Political Mobilization
Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

‘provides an excellent synthesis of diverse debates and of conceptual and empirical material... the integration of gender relations in the book's analysis is quite exceptional and deserves to have a major influence on future research across the many themes covered' - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

‘comprehensive and extensive.... very clearly written.... represents a substantial contribution to the restructuring debate in a commendably interdisciplinary fashion' - Sociology

‘The literature review is excellent and the reader is not in any position to challenge the statistical picture given in the historical account. There is much of considerable value in tis book' - Environment and Planning

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