East Enders ：Family and community in East London ( CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy )

Publication subTitle ：Family and community in East London

Publication series ：CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy

Author： Mumford   Katharine (Author)   Power   Anne (Author)  

Publisher： Policy Press‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9781847425690

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781861344977

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781861344960

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Social work

Language： ENG

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East Enders

Description

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. What hope is there of change? 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: · gives a bird's eye view of neighbourhood problems and assets; · provides policy recommendations based on real life experiences; · tackles topical issues such as race relations, mothers and work, urban revival and social disorder through the eyes of families; · is authored by leading experts in community studies. Undergraduate and postgraduate students in social policy, sociology, anthropology, urban studies, child development, geography, housing and public administration should all read this book. Policy makers in national and local government, practitioners and community workers in towns and cities and general readers interested in the life and history of urban neighbourhoods will also find this book an invaluable source of information.

Chapter

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. Conclusions

References

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

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