1st Edition
The Evolution of a Community A Study of Dagenham After Forty Years
By Peter Willmott
Copyright 1963
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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In earlier studies, Peter Willmott and other investigators had documented the social problems of new housing estates – the loneliness, the tensions, the disruption of family and neighbourhood ties. But how far are such troubles transitory? What kind of life would develop in communities like these when time had rubbed off the newness?
Originally published in 1963, in search of an answer, Peter... Read more
Introduction 1. The Estate and its Beginning 2. People and their Jobs 3. Stability and the Place of Relatives 4. Pressures on the Second Generation 5. The Voluntary Emigrants 6. Friends and Neighbours 7. Variations in Sociability 8. Public and Private Living 9. Affluence, Status and Class 10. In Conclusion – the Working-Class Community. Appendices: Methods of Research; Additional Tables; London County Council’s House-Room Standards; List of References. Index.
Biography
Peter Willmott
