Patterns of Social Inequality
Essays for Richard Brown
Longman Sociology Series
Series Editor:
ROBERT G. BURGESS, University of Warwick
Editorial Advisors:
JOE BAILEY, Kingston University
JOAN CHANDLER, Plymouth University
CHRIS RHODES, London Guildhall University
Published Titles:
Social Europe, 2nd Edition
Joe Bailey (ed.)
Disability and Society
Len Barton (ed.)
Frontiers of Identity
Robin Cohen
Women and Career
Julia Evetts
Poverty and Wealth
John Scott
Shaping Womens Work
Juliet Webster
Patterns of Social Inequality
Huw Beynon and Pandeli Glavanis (eds)
Forthcoming Titles:
Gender, Pain and Emotion
Gillian Bendelow
A Question of Knowledge
Richenda Power
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Contents
Huw Beynon and Pandeli Glavanis
Ian Roberts
Sheila Allen
Huw Beynon
Pandeli Glavanis
Robert G. Burgess
John Eldridge
Theo Nichols
Tony Eiger
Ian Roberts
Frank Ennis
Margaret M. Curran
Guide
The Longman Sociology Series consists of books written specifically for first and second year undergraduate students. Each covers one key area of sociology and aims to complement other materials.
The series is forward looking and attempts to reflect topics that will be included in syllabuses for sociology and social policy. It provides a range of volumes that bring together conceptual and empirical material. In addition, volumes in the series also examine key controversies and debates, drawing on commentaries using conceptual and empirical material from a range of authors.
Each volume in the series, whether authored or edited, covers an area that would be commonly found in sociology and social policy syllabuses. The focus of each volume is on theoretically informed empirical work with policy relatedness.
The volumes are intended for an international audience and therefore comparative material is introduced, where appropriate, in a form that is suitable for first and second year students.
Undergraduate students deserve good quality teaching from active researchers who can inspire them to think about the key issues and challenges in the social sciences in general and sociology in particular. Such teachers make the subject exciting and encourage students to become professional sociologists. In these circumstances, it is very appropriate for these essays to be written in honour of Richard Brown who has taught some of the contributors (including the series editor) and been a supportive colleague to us all. It is hoped that these essays will contribute to sociological debate much in the style of Richard Brown and inspire future generations of students to think about ways in which a sociological understanding of their world can be developed.
Professor Robert G. Burgess
University of Warwick
We would like to thank Dave OCarroll and Emma Hughes for their help with the production of the final typed manuscript and the production of the index.
We are also grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:
British Coal for an advertisement from the Observer newspaper 12.1.92 (, Cardiff Bay) and the Office for National Statistics for 1981 and 1991 Census data.
Sheila Allen was, until September 1998, a Research Professor of Sociology, and Equal Opportunities Adviser in the University of Bradford. Her main areas of research are the sociology of work, ethnic and race relations and the sociology of gender divisions. Her recent publications include What is Work for? The Right to Work and the Right to be Idle in R. K. Brown (ed.) The Changing Shape of Work , Basingstoke: Macmillan, and Gender Relations and Research on Work in J. Holmer and J. Karlstad (eds), Rethinking the Question of Work , Aldershot: Avebury, 1997.
Huw Beynon is Director of the School of Social Science at Cardiff University. Previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He has for many years been concerned with the study of social change and the lives of manual workers.
Robert G. Burgess is Pro-Vice Chancellor, Director of CEDAR (Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. His main teaching and research interests are in social research methodology; especially qualitative methods and the sociology of education, and the study of schools, classrooms and curricula. He was President of the British Sociological Association (198991) and currently Chairs the UK Council for Graduate Education. He chairs the ESRC Training Board and is a member of Council and was a member of the ESRC Research Resources Board.
Margaret M. Curran has worked as a researcher in universities and in central and local government. Her recent work, published by Tyne and Wear Research, includes a review of local quangos and an analysis of 1991 Census data on employment and commuting. Maggie is currently excluded from the labour market by ill health.
John Eldridge is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. His main research areas have been in industrial sociology and the sociology of the media. He is a founder member of the Glasgow Media Group.
Tony Eiger is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick. Recent publications include Global Japanization? The Transnational Transformation of the Labour Process , London: Routledge, 1994 and International Competition, Inward Investment and the Restructuring of European Work and Industrial Relations European Journal of Industrial Relations , 1997 (both with Chris Smith).
