Title: The fireman
Subtitle: a sociological profile
First published: 1977
Description: This research was started by me at Salford in 1974 but was not  completed as an M.Sc. thesis till 1977. It developed out of an undergraduate project I started at Leicester in 1971 where  I  had , fairly briefly , looked at the effects of shift working on  groups of Firemen working in  the  local Leicestershire  Fire Service . At Salford I developed this  research  much further by using  more detailed questionnaires and tape recording the results of the interviews I conducted with the Fire Service personnel .  The firemen interviewed  this time were from the local Salford Fire Brigade. I ended up with a lot of material  and I remember at least one member of the academic staff at Salford  University saying  in 1974 that my material was very good . It did however take a long time time to "write up" and it was not finally finished till 1977 , around  the time at the national fire service strike . One area I looked at was the effect of shift work on the work-leisure relationships and family life  of  these firemen .  As Harry Deakin  I wrote  a brief article for  the Magazine "New Society "1 December 1977 page 465 called "Firemen on the Job" which gave an overview of this research project . As well as looking at work-leisure relationships and attitudes to work , there was  also an opportunity  for me to look at the effects , on the firemen , of this small Salford brigade being  integrated into a much larger Greater Manchester Fire Service  as the interviews were carried out at the time of the local government reorganisation  of 1974. I was awarded my M.Sc in December 1977.
Places: Salford, Greated Manchester, England, United Kingdom
People: Harry or Henry Josph Deakin
Time periods: 1974 the time of the local government reorganisation