East Enders : family and community in East London / Katharine Mumford and Anne Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mumford, Katharine.

Contributor:

Power, Anne.

Series:

CASE studies on poverty, place, and policy

Case studies on poverty, place and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--England--London.

Families.

East End (London, England)--Social conditions.

East End (London, England).

England--London.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2003.

Contents:

1 Getting the inside view 1

2 Investigating neighbourhood life 9

Part 1 Community and race relations

3 Community spirit 31

4 Race and community relations in changing multi-ethnic neighbourhoods 57

Part 2 Mothers in work or at home?

5 Families and work: mothers in paid work 93

6 Families and work: mothers at home 117

Part 3 Neighbourhood conditions

the threat of breakdown

7 Managing neighbourhood conditions and services 145

8 Parks and open spaces 177

9 Disorder in the neighbourhoods: families' experiences of crime, gangs, neighbour problems, vandalism, graffiti, drugs and 'rough' behaviour 197

Part 4 How change affects families

10 Changing places: the families and their neighbourhoods 229

Appendix 1 Interviewees 291

Appendix 2 Characteristics of the neighbourhoods, families interviewed, and comparisons with local authority, regional and national averages 295

Appendix 3 Neighbourhood selection

links to the '12 Areas Study' 296

Appendix 4 Mothers' work patterns in different work trajectories 297

Appendix 5a Career histories of all non-working interviewees 300

Appendix 5b The circumstances of the mothers at home who did not want paid work 302

Appendix 5c The kind of paid work that the mothers and one lone father wanted 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

186134497X

OCLC:

51622509