Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- PART ONE OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE
- PART TWO THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE
- PART THREE THE FAMILY, SOCIAL PRACTICE AND BELIEF
- Introduction
- 9 Female waged labour
- 10 Domestic life
- 11 Leisure
- 12 Religion: practice and belief
- 13 Community and conclusion
- Appendix: supplementary information on the interviews
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography and sources
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- PART ONE OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE
- PART TWO THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE
- PART THREE THE FAMILY, SOCIAL PRACTICE AND BELIEF
- Introduction
- 9 Female waged labour
- 10 Domestic life
- 11 Leisure
- 12 Religion: practice and belief
- 13 Community and conclusion
- Appendix: supplementary information on the interviews
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography and sources
- Index
Summary
Generational reproduction involves biological reproduction, the regulation of sexuality, and the socialisation of children, while day-to-day reproduction involves numerous tasks of domestic labour such as shopping, cooking meals, washing, cleaning and caring. The two forms of reproduction of labour power inscribe biological, economic and ideological components, which are the tasks of domestic labour. The family is furthermore involved in the reproduction of the social relations of production which are in capitalist society both class relations and gender relations.
V. Beechey, in Kuhn and Wolpe 1978Although this book is concerned with an exclusively male workforce and the effect of occupation on industrial and social attitudes, it would be incomplete without a consideration of domestic life and the values transmitted in the home. The family is the first social experience for most people and it is there that individuals learn the use of language and through this, and the actual experience which gives it meaning, an implicit ideology which precedes entry into the workforce. The acquisition and modification of meanings is a continuous process which can lead to the rejection of earlier values later in life but it is not unreasonable to postulate that there will be the least change in the significance of early experience where there is the greatest continuity and articulation of domestic, communal and industrial experience.
Class and gender relations are experienced and internalised first in the family.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Occupation and SocietyThe East Anglian Fishermen 1880-1914, pp. 119 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985