title: Class transformation and work-life balance in urban Britain: the case of Manchester.
abstract: Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of those middle-class groups that have accompanied the return of capital to many North American and western European city centres and their surrounding urban suburbs. Yet despite this, it is argued that there is little research linking gentrification to wider processes of social transformation, particularly debates over housing market decision-making, the balancing of work and life, and the gender division of labour within the household. It is to examining the interaction of these aspects of everyday life in a gentrifying area that this paper turns, using the example of Chorlton, a southern urban suburb of Manchester.
authors.affiliation: School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fagan
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McDowell
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perrons
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ray
mesh_terms: D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology; D005783:Gender Identity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000208:ethnology; D014506:Urban Renewal / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014507:Urbanization / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017132:Workplace / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology