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Title Ordering lives : family, work and welfare / edited by Gordon Hughes and Ross Fergusson.

Publication Info. London : Routledge in association with the Open University, 2004.

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Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series An introduction to the social sciences. Understanding social change
Introduction to the social sciences. Understanding social change.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Open University course team; Series preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Power: its institutional guises (and disguises); Chapter 2 Family: from tradition to diversity?; Chapter 3 Work: from certainty to flexibility?; Chapter 4 Welfare: from security to responsibility?; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Index.
Summary This accessible and exciting text examines the role of family, work and welfare in maintaining social order and promoting social change in the UK from the 1950s to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Families -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
Families.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Work and family -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Work and family.
History.
Welfare state -- History -- 20th century.
Welfare state.
Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Social change.
Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Power (Social sciences)
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Hughes, Gordon, 1952-
Fergusson, Ross.
Other Form: Print version: Ordering lives. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 2004 041532971X 0415329728 (OCoLC)56440177
ISBN 041532971X (Cloth)
9780415329712 (Cloth)
0203392183 (electronic book)
9780203392188 (electronic book)
9780415329729
0415329728 (paperback)