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Restructuring Capital

Recession and Reorganization in Industrial Society

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Howard Newby

    1. University of Essex, UK
      ESRC Data Archive, UK

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  2. Janet Bujra

    1. Department of Economic and Social History and Sociology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

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  3. Paul Littlewood

    1. University of Glasgow, UK

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  4. Gareth Rees

    1. Department of Sociology, University College, Cardiff, UK
      Department of Town Planning, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK

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  5. Teresa L. Rees

    1. University College, Cardiff, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Recession and Reorganization in Industrial Society

    1. Introduction: Recession and Reorganization in Industrial Society

      • Howard Newby
      Pages 1-17

  3. The Restructuring of Capital and Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Space, Time and the Study of the Social

      • John Urry
      Pages 21-40

    3. The Homogenization of Space? Trends in the Spatial Division of Labour in Twentieth Century Britain

      • Alan Warde
      Pages 41-62

    4. Is Scotland Different? Industrial and Occupational Change in Scotland and Britain

      • Stephen Kendrick, Frank Bechhofer, David Mccrone
      Pages 63-102

  4. The Restructuring of Capital and Social Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Manchester’s Inner City: The Management of the Periphery

      • Rosemary Mellor
      Pages 105-123

    3. From West to East and Back Again: Capitalist Expansion and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century

      • Glenn Morgan
      Pages 124-155

    4. Racism and Cheap Labour in UK Wool Textiles

      • Ralph Fevre
      Pages 156-175

  5. The Restructuring of Capital and the Sexual Division of Labour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Women Workers and Bureaucratic Control in Irish Electronics Factories

      • Peter Murray, James Wickham
      Pages 179-199

    3. Tertiarization and Feminization at the Periphery: The Case of Wales

      • Victoria Winckler
      Pages 200-220

    4. Renegotiation of the Domestic Division of Labour in the Context of Male Redundancy

      • Lydia D. Morris
      Pages 221-243

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 245-249
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Essex, UK

    Howard Newby

  • ESRC Data Archive, UK

    Howard Newby

  • Department of Economic and Social History and Sociology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Janet Bujra

  • University of Glasgow, UK

    Paul Littlewood

  • Department of Sociology, University College, Cardiff, UK

    Gareth Rees

  • Department of Town Planning, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK

    Gareth Rees

  • University College, Cardiff, UK

    Teresa L. Rees

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Restructuring Capital

  • Book Subtitle: Recession and Reorganization in Industrial Society

  • Editors: Howard Newby, Janet Bujra, Paul Littlewood, Gareth Rees, Teresa L. Rees

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18088-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: British Sociological Association 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-18088-2Published: 07 February 1986

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 249

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Studies, Sociology, general

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