Revisiting Divisions of Labour The Impacts and Legacies of a Modern Sociological Classic

by Crow, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781780933412
• ISBN10: 178093341X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-05-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Revisiting Division of Labour is a radically revised second edition of the book Divisions of Labour by Ray Pahl, combining the strengths of a new edition with those of a 'reader' on a key author's work. The model shows the discipline at its best and is a platform for discussion of how and why sociological research can have deep and lasting impact.

One third of the volume is devoted to selected excerpts from the book, and the remaining two thirds comprise contributions by researchers working in the field today. This places Divisions of Labour in context, examines what was so innovative and important about it, and looks at its on-going significance for debates in fields including the sociology of work and the sociology of community.

Author Biography

Graham Crow is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. He is the editor of the What is? Series in Social Research Methods for Bloomsbury Academic. His latest book is Stepfamilies (Palgrave, 2011) with Graham Allan and Sheila Hawker.

Prior to his death in 2011 Ray Pahl was Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, having set up the British Household Panel Study there during the 1980s. He was instrumental in establishing the Society and Politics programme at the Central European University in Prague, continuing to work closely with sociologists in Eastern Europe throughout his career. In the late 1970s his exploratory study of the informal economy of the Isle of Sheppey developed into a major research project and led to the publication of Divisions of Labour in 1984. He was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Sociological Association in 2011.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Sheppey Study in Time and Place; Graham Crow (Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods)

Confronting Myths with Realities; Claire Wallace (Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen)

Rethinking What we Mean by 'Work'; Miriam Glucksmann (Professor of Sociology, University of Essex)

Studying How Households 'D' Work; Jonathan Gershuny (Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford)

Visualising People and Place; Dawn Lyon (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent)

The Legacies of Occupational Communities; Time Strangleman (Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham)

Divisions of Labour as a Work of Public Sociology; John Holmwood (Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham)

Bibliography

Index