Politics of Everyday Life

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Constructing the domestic sphere: The emergence of the modern home in postwar Britain

Chapter 3 When is a Child Not a Child

Chapter 5 Shifting Patterns of Parental Authority, 1900–1980

Chapter 6 Familial Control or Patriarchal Domination? The Case of the Family System of Labour in 19th Century Coal Mining

Chapter 7 Women’s Employment and The Historical Periodisation of Patriarchy

Chapter 8 The Political and Workplace Culture of the Scottish Working Class, 1880–1914

Chapter 9 Politics of the Sexes in English and Scottish Teachers’ Unions 1870–1914

Chapter 10 Meanings of Class and Social Mobility: the Public and Private Lives of Female Civil Servants

Chapter 11 ‘Adam spoke first and named the orders of the World’: Masculine and Feminine Domains in History and Sociology