Family and Kinship in East LondonOne of the pioneering works of modern sociology, Family and Kinship in East London is a study of family life in the East End of London in the 1950s, based on extensive interviews and case studies, which examines the consequences of moving families from urban to suburban public housing. The book was first published in 1954, updated in 1989, and is here presented with a new foreword by Judith Stacey. |
Contents
Foreword by Judith Stacey | xii |
I | 17 |
Where People Live | 31 |
Mothers and Daughters | 44 |
The Kinship Network | 76 |
The Family in the Economy | 89 |
Kinship and Community | 104 |
From Bethnal Green to Greenleigh | 121 |
9 | 131 |
Keeping Themselves to Themselves | 147 |
II | 170 |
12 | 186 |
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