Family & Kinship in East London A Survey by the Institute of Community Studies
London Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957
First Edition. [4], I-XIX, 232, [4]pp. Half title page, title page and dedication page. Original cloth boards and accompanying paper dust jacket with 1950s blue and white striped design. Vg, with some damage to the edges of the paper dust jacket and minor scattered foxing within. This seminal work presents a study by the two leading sociologists Michael Young and Peter Willmott and explores the nature of kinship and the structure of the family unit within industrial communities. Focusing on the metropolitan borough of Bethnal Green, Young and Willmott's groundbreaking and innovative findings are presented through a series of in depth chapters and illustrative tables that conjure up rich social networks for thorough examination.