International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 12 Issue 2

Responses to Redundancy: Labour‐Market Experience, Domestic Organisation and Male Social Networks

Lydia D. Morris

Port Talbot is a settlement of roughly 47,000 inhabitants, situated on the coast of South Wales, between Cardiff and Swansea. It is a town which prospered and grew with the…

Women Managers: Work, Stress and Marriage

Marilyn Davidson, Cary Cooper

With more women now working than ever before, there is also an enormous growth in younger women's entering many of the formerly male‐dominated jobs, including the field of…

Work, the Family and the Home: A More Egalitarian Future?

Janet Finch

This article is about the relationship between paid work and family life for both women and men; in particular, about the hopes — indeed, the expectations — of many people that…

Work and Marriage in the Offshore Oil Industry

David Clark, Kathryn McCann, Ken Morrice, Rex Taylor

In her recent discussion of women's incorporation into their husbands' employment Janet Finch produces a useful maxim for prospective wives:

Love and Work: Complementary Aspects of Personal Identity

Diana Daniell

Freud suggested that mental health depends on the capacity to love and to work. The complementary nature of these aspects of identity is examined and illustrated by case material…

Some Reflections on the Seminar

John Carlisle

In order to understand the phenomenon of marriage it is necessary to view it as a developing social relationship between two human beings which is subject to forces from without…