"Industrial Sociology and Economic Crisis" examines the different aspects of "crisis" in work, industry and society in modern Britain, and shows how perspectives formulated within industrial sociology can help us to understand developments in British society in the 1980s and beyond. The authors explore a number of questions about modern British industrial society, particularly relating to the last decade, such as, "Is the economy in crisis?", "Does class matter any more?", "What are trade unions for?", "What do managers do?", "Is there a crisis in authority relations in industry?", and, "Has Thatcherism cured Britain's strike problem?". The book uses the insights available from both recent and more classical debates within industrial sociology. It also operates an extended historical approach while focusing on a wide range of up-to-date empirical material.

Industrial Sociology and Economic Crisis

Politics & Social Sciences

John MacInnes

J.E.T. Eldridge

Peter Cressey

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

* Why does masculinity seem obvious yet prove impossible to define? * What has caused the erosion of men's power and will progress towards sexual equality continue? * How political is the personal? This book explains why both popular and academic commentators have found it impossible to define masculinity. It is because no such thing exists. Re-examining the ideas of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud and Thomas Hobbes, the author shows that modern societies faced the novel problem of explaining how men and women had equal rights, yet led such different lives, and solved it by inventing the concept of masculinity. It concludes that strong forces in modern societies encourage greater sexual equality, and that these are better supported by a politics of equal rights than by encouraging men to personally reform their masculine identity. MacInnes challenges established ways of thinking about sex, gender and masculinity that underpin not only feminist thought, but the treatment of these issues across the social sciences, philosophy and history.

The End of Masculinity

Open University Press

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