Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985, Anthea Holme focuses her study on Bethnal Green in East London and Wanstead and Woodford in outer East London, the areas covered by Michael Young and Peter Willmott in their celebrated books Family and Kinship in East London and Family and Class in a London Suburb. Her aim was to discover how things had changed in the twenty-five years or so since the publication of these classic studies. She makes a four-way comparison, between then and now and between two neighbourhoods of the present, a relatively prosperous outer London suburb and a London East End district carrying its full quota of inner-city problems.
The book takes as its starting point a crucial event in a family's history the birth of the first child. Housing may contribute to the happiness or the stress of the family at this time. The author looks at the present housing and the housing history of families who have just had their first child and discusses their satisfactio
Table of Contents
Foreword by Michael Young. Acknowledgements. Notes on Names, Places and Terms. Introduction. 1. The Neighbourhoods 2. The Families 3. Housing History 4. Family Building and Housing 5. The Homes 6. Ways of Life 7. Housing Aspirations 8. The Main Issues Discussed. Appendices. Notes and References. Index.
