Living and working in urban working class communities

Geoforum

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 312-325

  Ward, Kevin ^a   Fagan, Colette ^a   McDowell, Linda ^b   Perrons, Diane ^c   Ray, Kath ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Manchester; Social reproduction; Work life balance; Working class

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GENTRIFICATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POLITICS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; MANCHESTER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845868773     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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