Households, Work and Economic Change: A Comparative Institutional Perspective

Introduction: Institutional transformation.- Household, work and gender in transformation.- Games and habits.- The institutional approach and embedding change.- Households, work and economic change.- I The Significance of the Household in its Macro Context.- 1 Perspectives on the household in a changing economy.- 2 Behind the lace curtains.- 3 Social security, employment and the household.- II Economic Restructuring, Labour Market Change and the Household.- 4 British market-led restructuring: a case study of Wearside.- 5 Corporatist restructuring: a Scandinavian case study.- Corporatist and market-led restructuring compared.- III Changing Lives And Livelihoods.- Section A: Household responses to industrial change and unemployment.- 6 The family and the social division of labour during industrial restructuring.- 7 Gender responses to male unemployment; or, is Andy Capp dead?.- 8 Reflecting flexibility: from the security of regular employment to coping with casual work.- SECTION B: Changes in family and household based production.- 9 ‘Nationalisation’ of rural households? New teams for old tasks in agricultural households.- 10 Economic restructuring, environmental consciousness and farm family succession in Britain.- 11 Survival and flexibility in the urban small business household.- Section C: Shifting youth transitions and identities.- 12 From shipyards to nightclubs: the restructuring of young ‘Geordie’ work, home and consumption identities.- 13 Marginalised young men and successful young women: young people entering adulthood.- Conclusions Changing economies, changing households.