Divisions of Labour - Softcover

Divisions of Labour.

Broschiert. Zustand: Sehr gut. IX; 362 S., Abb. Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - Divisions of Labour is an exploration of the nature of everyday existence. Its focus is on work - what it is and who does what in society as a whole, in different kinds of community, and, most crucially, within the household. The approach is broad and interdisciplinary, owing as much to the methods and concepts of social history and anthropology as to those of sociology. The first part of the book is historical, concerned first to describe the patterns of work of men and women in pre-industrial Britain, and then to show how these changed during and after the Industrial Revolution. The second part of the book presents and examines the results of six years' intensive research on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. The author carefully marshalls an enormous mass of evidence and data in order both to challenge fundamental notions on class, status, income and gender, and to show that conventional explanations of individual behaviour and social change need substantial revision. Innovative in method, wide-ranging in approach and iconoclastic in its conclusions, Divisions of Labour represents sociology at its best - provocative, original and compulsively readable. ISBN 0631132740 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Artikel-Nr. 950954

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