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Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender
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Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender


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Social Theory | Urban Geography

April 1990 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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, economy and human geography of contemporary Britain.

 
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

`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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ISBN: 9780803982147
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