EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIOLOGY British Sociological Association Conference Volume series Sami Zubaida (editor) Richard Brown (editor) Paul Rock and Mary McIntosh Emanuel de Kadt and Gavin Williams Frank Parkin (editor) Diana Leonard Barker and Sheila Allen Diana Leonard Barker and Sheila Allen Richard Scase (editor) Robert Dingwall, Christian Heath, Margaret Reid and Margaret Stacey Robert Dingwall, Christian Heath, Margaret Reid and Margaret Stacey Gary Littlejohn, Barry Smart, John Wakeford and Nira Yuval Davis Michele Barrett, Philip Corrigan, Annette Kuhn and Janet Wolff Bob Fryer, Alan Hunt, Doreen MacBarnet and Bert Moorhouse Philip Abrams, Rosemary Deem, Janet Finch and Paul Rock Graham Day, Lesley Caldwell, Karen Jones, David Robbins and Hilary Rose David Robins, Lesley Caldwell, Graham Day, Karen Jones and Hilary Rose 1 Race and Racism 2 Knowledge, Education and Cultural CluLnge 3 Deviance and Social Control 4 Sociology and Development 5 The Social Analysis of Class Structure 6 Sexual Divisions and Society: Process and CluLnge 7 Dep'endence and Exploitation in Work ana Marriage 8 Industrial Society: Class, Cleavage and Control 9 Health Care and Health Knowledge 10 Health and the Division of Labour 11 Power and the State 12 Ideology and Cultural Production 13 Law, State and Society 14 Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980 15 Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market 16 RethinkingSocialInequality
Eva Gamarnikow, David Morgan, June Purvis and Daphne Taylorson Eva Gamarnikow, David Morgan, June Purvis and Daphne Taylorson *Gareth Rees,Janet Bujra, Paul Littlewood, Howard Newby and Teresa L. Rees *Howard Newby, Janet Bujra, Paul Littlewood, Gareth Rees, Teresa L. Rees *Sheila Allen, Kate Purcell, Alan Waton and Stephen Wood *Kate Purcell, Stephen Wood, Alan Waton and Sheila Allen *Jalna Hanmer and Mary Maynard *Colin Creighton and Martin Shaw *Alan Bryman, Bill Bytheway, Patricia Allatt and Teresa Keil *Patricia Allatt, Teresa Keil, Alan Bryman and Bill Bytheway *Ian Varcoe, Maureen McNeil and Steven Yearley *Maureen McNeil, Ian Varcoe and Steven Yearley David McCrone, Stephen Kendrick and Pat Straw Stephen Kendrick, David McCrone and Pat Straw *Helen Corr and Lynn Jamieson *LynnJamieson and Helen Corr 17 The Public and the Private 18 Gender, Class and Work 19 Political Action and Social Identity: Class, Locality and IdeoloffY 20 Restructuring Capital: Recession and Reorganization in Industrial Society 21 The Experience of Unemployment 22 The Changing Experience of Employment: Restructuring and Recession 23 Women, Violence and Social Control 24 The SocioloffY of War and Peace 25 Rethinking the Life Cycle 26 Women and the Life Cycle 27 Deciphering Science and TechnoloffY 28 The New Reproductive Technologies 29 The Making of Scotland: Nation, Culture and Social Change 30 Interpreting the Past: Understanding the Present 31 Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Work and the Family 32 State, Private Life and Political Change *Published by Macmillan
Politics of Everyday Life Continuity and Change in Work and the Family Edited by Helen Corr Research Fellow in Sociology University of Edinburgh and Lynn Jamieson Lecturer in Sociology University of Edinburgh M MACMILLAN
British Sociological Association 1990 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WCIE 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1990 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Filmset by Wearside Tradespools Fulwell, Sunderland British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Corr, Helen Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Work and the Family. (Explorations in sociology; 31). 1. Families. Socio-political aspects I. Title II. Corr, Helen; Jamieson, Lynn III. Series 306.8'5 ISBN 978-0-333-49366-3 ISBN 978-1-349-20705-3 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20705-3
Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Helen Corr and Lynn Jamieson Vll IX 1 PART I HOME MA TIERS? THE INTERPLAY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORLDS 2 Constructing the Domestic Sphere: The 11 Emergence of the Modern Home in Post-War Britain Graham Crow and Graham Allan 3 When is a Child Not a Child? 37 Anna Davin 4 Transitions in the Youth Debate: A Critique 62 Sarah/rwin 5 Shifting Patterns of Parental Control 86 LynnJamieson and Claire Toynbee PART II POLITICS AT WORK: THE SO CALLED PUBLIC SPHERE 6 Familial Control or Patriarchal Domination? 117 The Case of the Family System of Labour in 19th-century Coal Mining Jane Mark-Lawson and Anne Witz 7 Women's Employment and the historical 141 periodisation of Patriarchy Sylvia Walby 8 The Political and Workplace Culture of the 162 Scottish Working Class, 1880-1914 William Knox v
VI Contents 9 Politics of the Sexes in English and Scottish 186 Teachers' Unions 1870-1914 RelenCorr 10 Meanings of Class and Social Mobility: The 206 Public and Private Lives of Women Civil Servants Kay Sanderson PART III SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY AND THE QUESTION OF GENDER 11 'Adam spoke first and named the Orders of the 229 World': Masculine and Feminine Domains in History and Sociology Leonore Davidoff Index 256
Acknowledgements The papers which appear in the revised version were originally presented at the British Sociological Association (BSA) Conference, 'Sociology and History', held at Edinburgh University in March 1988. This is one of four volumes to be produced and it reflects the high quality of the papers and wide-ranging response to the theme. The sister volumes are State, Private Life and Political Change (eds) L.Jamieson and H. Corr; The Making of Scotland: Nation, Culture and Social Change (eds) D. McCrone, S. Kendrick and P. Straw; Interpreting the Past: Understanding the Present (eds) S. Kendrick, P. Straw and D. McCrone. We would like to thank all those who gave papers, the participants, and those who helped with the organisation, all of whom contributed to the success of the conference. We would like to thank the other editors of the conference, Terry Inkster and Lilianne Paterson, for their efficient typing and administrative work in the Sociology Department, and Mike Milotte and Anne Dix of the BSA for their helpful advice. vii
Notes on Contributors Graham Allan has been Lecturer in Sociology at the U niversity of Southampton since 1975. His main teaching and research interests are in informal social relationships and domestic life. His publications include A Sociology of Friendship and Kinship (1979), Family Life (1985), and Friendship: A Sociological Perspective. Together with Graham Crow, he is currently editing a volume entitled Home and Family (1989). Helen Corr is Research Fellow in Sociology at Edinburgh University. She is co-editor with Lynn Jamieson of State, Private Life and Political Change. She is currently working on a book on gender, school teachers and education in England and Scotland, 1850-1914. Graham Crow has been Temporary Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton since 1983. His main publications are in the field of rural sociology, but his teaching and research interests also cover social policy, sociological theory, and the sociology of the family and community. He is currently editing (with Graham Allan) a book on the home, Home and Family. Leonore Davidoff is a Senior Lecturer in Social History in the Department of Sociology, University of Essex. She is co-author (with Catherine Hall) of Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 and other books and articles on nineteenth century Britain. She is editor of the journal, Gender and History. Anna Davin is completing a book on girls' childhood in the late-nine tee nth-century London working class. She is on the editorial collective of History Workshop Journal and is the current organiser of the London History Workshop Seminar. She is a Visiting Lecturer to the State University of New York, Bing Hampton. IX
x Notes on the Contributors Sarah Irwin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology, Edinburgh University. She has previously held research posts in the Department of Geography, Leeds University, and the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University. Lynn Jamieson is a Lecturer in Sociology, Edinburgh University, currently working on childhood (with Dr Toynbee), youth (ESRC 16-19 Initiative) and sexual assault (with Dr Brown, Law, Edinburgh and Ms Burman, Sociology). She is writing a book on Scottish rural childhood with Dr Toynbee and is co-editor of State, Private Life and Political Change with Dr Corr. William Knox is a Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of St. Andrews; he is author of several articles and books on Scottish Labour History, including a biography of James Maxton, and is currently researching into the development of work and trade unionism in twentieth-century Scotland. Jane Mark-Lawson is a Senior Research Officer in the Department of Employment: The Training Agency. She has published on women and local politics and industrial restructuring and is co-author of Localities Class and Gender (1985). Kay Sanderson is co-ordinator of the Women's Employment and Enterprise Training Unit in Norwich. She is also a part-time counsellor tutor at the Open University. Her article is based on an unpublished Ph.D. thesis: 'Social Mobility in the Life Cycle of Some Women Clerical Workers' (1988), held at the University of Essex. Claire Toynbee is a lecturer in Sociology and Social Work, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her work includes extensive use of oral histories and genealogies. She is currently writing a book on Scottish rural childhood with Lynn Jamieson. Sylvia Walby has been a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lancaster since 1979 and Director of the Women's Studies Research Centre since 1984. She is the
Notes on the Contributors Xl author of Patriarchy at Work (1986), editor of Gender Segregation at Work (1988), and co-author of Localities, Class and Gender (1985) and Contemporary British Society (1988). Anne Witz is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic. She has researched and published in the medical division of Labour. Her current research is on Victorian lady doctors in India.