Download or read book Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender written by Paul Bagguley and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyze the ways in which places have been transformed through the changes taking place within them - shifts in the nature and quantity of paid and unpaid work, in social and political mobilization, in cultural and aesthetic experience and in the built environment. Using a locality study of Lancaster, they emphasize place as a decisive point in understanding social and economic changes. They consider how successfully concepts of `restructuring' explain the relation between local and global change. The book will be a major contribution to international debates on restructuring and the impact of global change on the locality. It will also be of interest to all social scientists interested in the sociology,