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‘Doing What is Right’: Researching Intimacy, Work and Family Life in Glasgow, 1945-1960

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  • Sue Innes
  • Linda McKie

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Understanding discursive shifts over the twentieth century in relation to family roles, paid work and care is essential to any critical review of contemporary family theory and policies. This paper charts aspects of these shifts. An analysis of case records of the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC), 1945 to 1960 is presented. Based upon these data we reflect upon the construction of the working-class family in the West of Scotland and draw upon one case study to illustrate issues further. This post-war period was one of rapid social and technological change. It is commonly perceived as a period of segregated gender roles, and in the UK a predominant male-breadwinner family model. The RSSPCC case records suggest that family lives and forms, particularly for those on low incomes, were diverse throughout this period. Although prosecutions for cruelty and neglect are dominant in perceptions of the society, most of its work was in material assistance, advice and surveillance. This latter aspect is considered in this paper.

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  • Sue Innes & Linda McKie, 2006. "‘Doing What is Right’: Researching Intimacy, Work and Family Life in Glasgow, 1945-1960," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 11(2), pages 66-74, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:11:y:2006:i:2:p:66-74
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1256
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    1. John Goodwin & Henrietta O'Connor, 2009. "Through the Interviewer's Lens: Representations of 1960s Households and Families in a Lost Sociological Study," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 14(4), pages 65-76, September.

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