Recast Dreams
Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown
Garamond Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-1-55193-007-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first theoretical and empirically based examination of the interaction of class consciousness with workplace-related gender consciousness and household class relations. Significant contemporary socio-political issues, such as the division of labour for both women and men in the paid workplace and household spheres are examined afresh.
Based on the Steelworker Families and Hamilton Families Projects - studies of class and gender relations employing survey data and indepth interviews which span a decade of research - D.W. Livingstone and Marshall Mangan revise the materialist approach to group consciousness, employing a Marxist-Feminist perspective to discuss practices in the household sphere and the production of goods and services in the paid workplace.
Internationally recognized scholars Meg Luxton and Wally Seccombe also contribute, in critical analyses of class consciousness and gender relations and critiques of conventional Marxist and post-modernist perspectives. Elizabeth Asner, formerly a research assistant on the Hamilton Families Project, co-authors the chapter on household class groupings.
Recast Dreams is an immensely informative and highly readable book, essential reading for all those who are interested in class and gender relations. The book will be particularly useful for unionists and social activists.
Based on the Steelworker Families and Hamilton Families Projects - studies of class and gender relations employing survey data and indepth interviews which span a decade of research - D.W. Livingstone and Marshall Mangan revise the materialist approach to group consciousness, employing a Marxist-Feminist perspective to discuss practices in the household sphere and the production of goods and services in the paid workplace.
Internationally recognized scholars Meg Luxton and Wally Seccombe also contribute, in critical analyses of class consciousness and gender relations and critiques of conventional Marxist and post-modernist perspectives. Elizabeth Asner, formerly a research assistant on the Hamilton Families Project, co-authors the chapter on household class groupings.
Recast Dreams is an immensely informative and highly readable book, essential reading for all those who are interested in class and gender relations. The book will be particularly useful for unionists and social activists.
More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55193-007-7 (9781551930077)
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E-Book
05/1996
1st Edition
University of Toronto Press
€19.95
Available for download
Persons
Edited by David Livingstone and J. Marshall Mangan
Content
Introduction: The changing context of class and gender. Relations in contemporary Canada, David Livingstone, J. Marshall Mangan; Men's employment: classes and class consciousness, David Livingstone, J. Marshall Mangan; gender consciousness at work, Meg Luxon, David Livingstone; Class gender and expanded consciousness in Steeltown, David Livingstone, J. Marshall Mangan; feet in both camps: household classes, divisions of labour and group consciousness, Elizabeth Asner, David Livingstone; Beyond class and gender reductionism, Wally Seccombe, David Livingstone.