Title Class and space : the making of urban society / edited by Nigel Thrift and Peter Williams

Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (437 pages) Series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory Routledge library editions. Social theory. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 The geography of class formation; PART ONE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; 2 Introduction: The geography of nineteenth-century class formation; 3 Class, place and industrial revolution; 4 Class, behaviour and residence in nineteenth-century society: the lower middle class in Huddersfield in 1871; 5 Home ownership, subsistence and historical change: the mining district of West Cornwall in the late nineteenth century 6 Constituting class and gender: a social history of the home, 1700-1901PART TWO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; 7 Introduction: The geography of late twentieth-century class formation; 8 The growth of scientific management: transformations in class structure and class struggle; 9 Knowing your place: Class, politics and ethnicity in Chicago and Birmingham, 1890-1983; 10 Spatial development processes: organized or disorganized?; 11 The affluent homeowner: labour-market position and the shaping of housing histories; Bibliography; Index of Names; Subject Index Summary This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the study of modern societies, integrating the work of human geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which emphasises the essential unit Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-397) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Social classes -- Great Britain -- History Social classes -- United States -- History Human geography -- Great Britain -- History Human geography -- United States -- History City and town life -- Great Britain -- History City and town life -- United States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. City and town life Human geography Social classes Great Britain United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Thrift, N. J. Williams, Peter, 1947- ISBN 9781317652083 1317652088 9781315763705 1315763702

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