What happens to a marriage when the wife is a professional and the husband is a manual worker? Cross-Class Families takes a keen look at families that break with the convention of male occupational superiority. Key issues addressed by the families studied include paid work and its relation to family life; the division of household labor, including childcare; responsibility for long-term financial security; and the impact of differences in status, class position, political preference, choice of friends, and attitudes toward trade unions.
- ISBN10 0198272642
- ISBN13 9780198272649
- Publish Date 1 March 1986
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 October 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English