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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences
today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to
persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about
narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and
synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on
theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and
applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic
enough for first-time researchers, but also as a window onto the
more complex questions and difficulties that all researchers in
this area face. The authors guide readers through current debates
about how to obtain and analyse narrative data, about the nature of
narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher
interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied
and in broader political contexts.
Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in
relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the
analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The
author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of
gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The
chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got
involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how
activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.; The book presents
a historical period which was marked by a change in the role of the
state with respect to intervention in industrial conditions, and
analyses the coincidence of this with three other significant
developments: the growth of expertise in industrial disease; the
employment of women in the factory to take on responsibilities in
relation to other women; and changes in the direction of feminist
activism. In light of this analysis, the author suggests that some
theoretical approaches to both gender relations and health and
safety requirements require modification.
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences
today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to
persistent problems. This book will bring together ideas about
narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and
synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on
theory, the book will examine how narrative research is conducted
and applied. It will operate as an introductory guide, simple
enough for the beginner, but also as a window onto the more complex
questions and difficulties that all researchers in this area face.
It will guide readers through current debates not just about how to
obtain and analyse narrative data, but about the nature of
narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher
interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied
and in broader political contexts.
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