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The People of Ship Street
This is Volume XVI of Twenty-one in the Class, Race and Social Structure Series. Originally published in 1958, this study looks at the lives of a group of people in a Liverpool slum. Ship Street is a pseudonym as the descriptions in the text are from field work.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 30, 1998
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May 29, 2012
A sociological study of a group of 61 families living in a Liverpool slum in the 1950s. It describes in great detail their daily routines, and attitudes towards work, children, sex and marriage, social interactions and superstitions and beliefs.
One of the most interesting aspects is the fact that the daughters almost always brought their husbands home to live with their mother once they had married, and if they couldn't live in the same house, they lived next door or in the same street. Mothers wielded considerable power and influence over their extended families.
One of the most interesting aspects is the fact that the daughters almost always brought their husbands home to live with their mother once they had married, and if they couldn't live in the same house, they lived next door or in the same street. Mothers wielded considerable power and influence over their extended families.
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