Ordering Lives: Family, Work and Welfare

by Gordon Hughes and Ross Fergusson

Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It shows how everyday life within these institutions is marked by the exercise of power and resistance and it charts the ways in which wider social change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415329728
• ISBN13: 9780415329729
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.5"