Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
13 February 2008 repeat 17 February
FAMILY LIFE RUNNING HOTELS Dr Julie Seymour recently published the findings of her new research study entitled Treating the Hotel Like a Home. Dr Seymour who grew up in a hotel in Clacton-on-Sea herself, discusses the accommodations that family life must make when living in and running a hotel.
SLUM TRAVELLERS For upper class women of the two generations preceding World War I, the poorest parts of London exerted a magnetic pull. Thousands of women from the ‘best circles’, turned their backs on the season, balls, parties and picnics and headed for the slums; some of them living incognito with the poor to better understand their predicament.
Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Ellen Ross, author of a new book Slum Travellers which explores these women’s experiences and the impact they had on attitudes to the poor. Joining the discussion is writer and journalist Polly Toynbee who went undercover amongst Britain’s low-paid workers to discover the realities of life on minimum wage.
Additional information:
Dr Julie Seymour Senior Lecturer Social Research, University of Hull
Treating the Hotel Like a Home: The Contribution of Studying the Single Location Home/Workplace Sociology, Vol. 41, No. 6, 1097-1114 (2007) DOI: 10.1177/0038038507082317
Professor Ellen Ross Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey
Slum Travelers: Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920 University of California Press Berkeley ISBN: 978-0-520-24905-9
Polly Toynbee Journalist, writer and Guardian columnist
Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN-10: 0747564159 ISBN-13: 978-0747564157
Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New Ed edition (3 Oct 1990) ISBN-10: 0860680665 ISBN-13: 978-0860680666
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