Cross-Class Families: A Study of Wives' Occupational Superiority

By Susan McRae

What happens to a marriage when the wife is a professional and the husband is a manual worker? Cross-Class Families takes a keen look at families that break with the convention of male occupational superiority. Key issues addressed by the families studied include paid work and its relation to family life; the division of household labor, including childcare; responsibility for long-term financial security; and the impact of differences in status, class position, political preference, choice of friends, and attitudes toward trade unions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198272642
• ISBN13: 9780198272649
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.9" x 5.6"