Work/Life City Limits Comparative Household Perspectives
This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives in post-industrial cities, taking close account of the
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Also by Helen Jarvis: (co-author with A.C. Pratt & P. Cheng-Chong Wu) THE SECRET LIFE OF CITIES: The Social Reproduction of Everyday Life
Work/Life City Limits Comparative Household Perspectives Helen Jarvis University of Newcastle, UK
© Helen Jarvis 2005 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-349-51200-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-51200-3
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DOI 10.1057/9780230503304 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jarvis, Helen, 1965– Work/life city limits : comparative household perspectives / Helen Jarvis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Work and family–Cross-cultural studies. 2. Urban anthropology– Cross-cultural studies. I. Title. HD4904.25.J37 2005 331.25–dc22
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Contents List of Figures, Photos, Tables and Boxes
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Acknowledgements
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Chapter One: The Personal is Political A day in the life Two similar extremes? Three spheres of restructuring Flexible labour Gender dynamics Urban split Four conceptual themes Everyday life and the material city Practical limits to growth Time-space-matter Neo-liberalism and local cultures of resistance Summary and structure of this book
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Chapter Two: Cities and Families Research approach Successful cities Urbanism meets environmentalism The UK urban village movement The US Congress of New Urbanism Critique of the new urbanism Five city postcards International comparisons Support for working families Urban planning systems Finding the families Summary
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