Division of Domestic Labour - Gentrification and Working-Class Residents
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Gentrification: its impact on working class residents. Laurie Taylor talks to Kirsteen Paton, lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, about her groundbreaking research in a neighbourhood undergoing urban renewal and improvement. Many such studies have focused on middle class lifestyles rather than the experience of less well off members of the community. Are working class residents inevitably displaced by gentrification and must traditional ways of life always disappear? Or can poorer people re-work the process and gain on their own terms? They're joined by Melissa Butcher, lecturer in Human Geography at Birkbeck, University of London.
Also, 'sharing the load': the division of domestic labour amongst couples where women are the higher earners. Clare Lyonette, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, asks if men do more when they earn less.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:44.0 | Now don't get me wrong. |
| 0:50.0 | Now don't get me wrong I mean I'm really quite happy doing this hoovering I mean obviously |
| 0:54.2 | there was a time when this was very much women's work but now in this more well |
| 0:58.1 | liberated age it's only really appropriate that men like myself do their proper |
| 1:02.0 | share of domestic chores you you know, like this, not just |
| 1:04.9 | taking out the rubbish and washing the car on Sunday. |
| 1:07.4 | Oh no, no, no, no. |
| 1:08.4 | Why, why, why, why, why don't they make proper vacuum cleaners anymore? You know the ones you could |
| 1:16.8 | push in front of you like a lawnmower as you clean rather than these prissy little |
| 1:20.9 | cylinders that follow you around like the cautilus and poodles. |
| 1:25.0 | Actually, since my partner got her new full-time job, I also do a bit of washing up. Not drying or putting away you know but washing up. That's very much my forte. |
| 1:37.0 | Well arguments between men and women over who does what in the home the so-called |
| 1:46.1 | chore wars have hardly been resolved in recent years. The women interviewed in |
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