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Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape
Taking a biographical approach, this paper uses life history narratives across four generations of families living and working in Wigan, Lancashire to analyse social and cultural changes in working life biographies over the past 80 years. Beginning with those who left school at 14, prior to the 1944...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00068 |
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description | Taking a biographical approach, this paper uses life history narratives across four generations of families living and working in Wigan, Lancashire to analyse social and cultural changes in working life biographies over the past 80 years. Beginning with those who left school at 14, prior to the 1944 Education Act up to the present, where young people are required to remain in education until 18, the paper examines the decisions people have taken throughout their working lives. Inevitably these are shaped by structural changes, particularly to the industrial landscape. The biographical narratives allow a “bottom up” approach to uncovering changes to life courses over three generations in a northern British former industrial town whilst also exploring the wider relations between self, society and place (conceptualized here as “taskscape”) in a post-industrial setting. Key changes over the generations are the increased ability of women to pursue careers in addition to having a family, the decrease in parental influence over career choice, and the loss of a “job for life” and employment opportunities for manual workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-80227362021-04-15 Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape Bennett, Julia Front Sociol Sociology Taking a biographical approach, this paper uses life history narratives across four generations of families living and working in Wigan, Lancashire to analyse social and cultural changes in working life biographies over the past 80 years. Beginning with those who left school at 14, prior to the 1944 Education Act up to the present, where young people are required to remain in education until 18, the paper examines the decisions people have taken throughout their working lives. Inevitably these are shaped by structural changes, particularly to the industrial landscape. The biographical narratives allow a “bottom up” approach to uncovering changes to life courses over three generations in a northern British former industrial town whilst also exploring the wider relations between self, society and place (conceptualized here as “taskscape”) in a post-industrial setting. Key changes over the generations are the increased ability of women to pursue careers in addition to having a family, the decrease in parental influence over career choice, and the loss of a “job for life” and employment opportunities for manual workers. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8022736/ /pubmed/33869474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00068 Text en Copyright © 2020 Bennett. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Bennett, Julia Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape |
title | Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape |
title_full | Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape |
title_fullStr | Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape |
title_full_unstemmed | Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape |
title_short | Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape |
title_sort | work, identity, place, and population. a changing landscape |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00068 |
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