Family, Community and Unemployment: A Study in Change
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 32 (4) , 662-695
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1984.tb00830.x
Abstract
This paper provides the first report of an intensive empirical study of social relations of unemployment on a Glasgow housing estate. Its sample is divided into two equal, age-based categories corresponding to families where the male ‘head of household’ is over 25 and has a previous record of regular work, and those under 25 where such experience is absent. The paper identifies and examines a domestic and work-linked cycle which has been disrupted by unemployment. On this basis we then consider the differential adaptation to unemployment of the two groups; differences in their gender relations and differences in the forms and degrees of their reliance on kin and other support. We finally and tentatively propose some connections between unemployment and domestic conflict.Keywords
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