This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the study of modern societies, integrating the work of human geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which emphasises the essential unity of social science.
1. The Geography of Class Formation Nigel Thrift and Peter Williams Part
1. The Nineteenth Century
2. Introduction: The Geography of
Nineteenth-Century Class Formation Nigel Thrift
3. Class, Space and
Industrial Revolution Craig Calhoun
4. Class, Behaviour and Residence in
Nineteenth-Century Society: The Lower Middle Class in Huddersfield in 1871
Richard Dennis
5. Home Ownership, Subsistence and Historical Change: The
Mining District of West Cornwall in the Late Nineteenth Century Damaris Rose
6. Constituting Class and Gender: A Social History of the Home, 1700-1901
Peter Williams Part
2. The Twentieth Century
7. Introduction: The Geography
of Late Twentieth-Century Class Formation Nigel Thrift
8. The Growth of
Scientific Management: Transformations in Class Structure and Class Struggle
John Urry
9. Knowing Your Place: Class, Politics and Ethnicity in Chicago and
Birmingham, 1890-1983 Dennis Smith
10. Spatial Development Processes:
Organized or Disorganized? Philip Cooke
11. The Affluent Homeowner:
Labour-Market Position and the Shaping of Housing Histories Ray Forrest and
Alan Murie
Nigel Thrift, Peter Williams
