Ordering Lives £18.99
This accessible and exciting text examines the role of family, work and welfare in maintaining social order and promoting social change in the UK from the 1950s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Have the social and political institutions of the UK changed drastically in the last 50 years? Are marriage, jobs for life and the welfare state things of the past? Is there a new politics to deal with these changes? Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions ...