Working Class Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Jackson, Brian

Social Sciences

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Working Class Comm Ils 122: Some General Notions Raised by a Series of Studies in Northern England (International Library of Sociology)

Reference

Routledge

Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who were either deterred by the class barriers erected by selective schools and elite universities, or, having broken through them to gain university entry, found themselves at sea. The authors admit at the end of the book they have raised and failed to answer many questions, and in spite of the disappearance of the majority of grammar schools, many of those questions still remain unanswered.

Marsden, Dennis

In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a ‘seven plus’ because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them – less than six in one hundred change their stream. The study shows that on a national sample the date on which a child is born – irrespective of his ability – affects his or her stream at the age of 7 and his results at eleven plus. Finally ten streamed schools are compared, academically and socially, with ten unstreamed schools. In the final chapters the author makes practical proposals by which primary schools could recognise and increase the flow of gifted children. 

Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): An Education System in Miniature

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Fatherhood (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1984, this groundbreaking title explores the concept of fatherhood, by following a hundred men who become fathers for the first time. The book is addressed to men who are discovering fatherhood and to women who wish to hear what a man feels and thinks about having a child. Many men experience the strange problems of the male couvade. They have everything from mysterious back ache to inexplicable stomach pains. Later they frequently find that the white-coated professionals shut the door on their doubts and needs and their shy search for information.  Brian Jackson’s book cautiously explores changing attitudes to fatherhood emerging at the time of the book’s initial publication. In recent years we have gone through a unique revolution in man’s experience of woman and child. There is surprise at the costs and demands of parenthood, so much so that both parents may move from a honeymoon phase of parenthood into the birth of the blues. Previously this has been thought of as a female, hormonal readjustment, but since men speak of identical symptoms, this study suggests that, at the roots, lies the strain of unprepared parenthood.  The traditional father is still there – showing off his medals, his tattoos, his rugby triumphs and his unconcern for the gentler aspects of life. So is the man who simply hunts in the economic jungle, and expects his home to service him. But most of these men now waver and hedge their bets. They look at their child as they return from their working day, or as they slump into unemployment, and wonder if they could be more positive, more creative, more licensed to care.

Sociology

The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals): A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced evidence, executed in 1927. In 1977, on the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths, the Commonwealth of Massachusettes issued a proclamation which acknowledged a miscarriage of justice. The Black Flag provides an account of the controversial trial and a re-evaluation of the celebrated case of the Commonwealth’s decision. Brian Jackson puts the trial in the social context of the period and exposes the nature of anarchism by looking at the lives of two of its exponents, resulting in a moving exploration of a series of events that continue to trouble the conscience of America.

<p>First published in 1979, this book looks at the subject of childminding in Britain at the time it was written. It is based on a national survey that was commissioned by the Social Science Research Council and on action to help childminders funded by the Wates Foundation at Manchester University, UK. Previous to this study it was calculated that more than one million children under the age of five had a working mother, but little research had been done into childminders themselves. This book evaluates the number and nature of the childminders in Britain that were looking after the nation’s children in the 70s. It argues that parents have a right to choose to work if society can guarantee loving and skilled care for their children. However, the authors suggest that this was not the case at the time and state that childminders were in need of better governmental support.</p>

Childminder (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Action Research

Jackson, Sonia

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Working Class Community

Working Class Comm Ils 122: Some General Notions Raised by a Series of Studies in Northern England (International Library of Sociology)

Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): An Education System in Miniature

Fatherhood (Routledge Revivals)

Fatherhood (Routledge Revivals)

Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals): A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals): A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Childminder (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Action Research