Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester

Kevin Ward, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Diane Perrons and Kathryn Ray
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Kevin Ward: School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, k.g.ward@manchester.ac.uk
Colette Fagan: Colette Fagan is in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, colette.fagan@manchester.ac.uk
Linda McDowell: School of Geography, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK, linda.mcdowell@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Diane Perrons: Department of Geography, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC, UK, d.perrons@lse.ac.uk
Kathryn Ray: Policy Studies Institute, University of Westminster, 50 Hanson Street, London, W1W 6UP, UK, rayk@psi.org.uk

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 11, 2259-2278

Abstract: Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of those middle-class groups that have accompanied the return of capital to many North American and western European city centres and their surrounding urban suburbs. Yet despite this, it is argued that there is little research linking gentrification to wider processes of social transformation, particularly debates over housing market decision-making, the balancing of work and life, and the gender division of labour within the household. It is to examining the interaction of these aspects of everyday life in a gentrifying area that this paper turns, using the example of Chorlton, a southern urban suburb of Manchester.

Date: 2010
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