East Enders : family and community in East London / [electronic resource]
Mumford, Katharine,author.
Power, Anne,author.
This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood relations (including race relations), through the eyes of the local community. Using an up-to-date account of life in East London, the authors illustrate how cities faced with neighbourhoods in decline are changing.
EAST ENDERS; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; 1. Getting the inside view; 2. Investigating neighbourhood life; 3. Community spirit; 4. Race and community relations in changing multi-ethnic neighbourhoods; 5. Families and work: mothers in paid work; 6. Families and work: mothers at home; 7. Managing neighbourhood conditions and services; 8. Parks and open spaces; 9. Disorder in the neighbourhoods: families' experiences of crime, gangs, neighbour problems, vandalism, graffiti, drugs and 'rough' behaviour; 10. Changing places: the families and their neighbourhoods
11. ConclusionsReferences; Appendix 1: Interviewees; Appendix 2: Characteristics of the neighbourhoods, families interviewed, and comparisons with local authority, regional and national averages (%); Appendix 3: Neighbourhood selection - links to the '12 Areas Study'; Appendix 4: Mothers' work patterns in different work trajectories; Appendix 5a: Career histories of all non-working interviewees; 5b: The circumstances of the mothers at home who did not want paid work; 5c: The kind of paid work that the mothers and one lone father wanted; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2022).
This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood relations (including race relations), through the eyes of the local community. Using an up-to-date account of life in East London, the authors illustrate how cities faced with neighbourhoods in decline are changing.
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