Family and kinship in east London

This book is about the effect of one of the newest upon one of the oldest of our social institutions. The new is the housing estate, hundreds of which have been hulle since the war. In the last century people moved into the cities in this they have been mening teadily out again, towards the countryside from which their ancestors came. The middle classes led the exodus into the inner sabores the working classes of London and other large cities have followed by jumping over the earlier settlers into the oover fing of municipal estates.

The old institution in the family. Our initial object was to find one what happens to family life when people move to an estate. For this purpose, we needed to make a comparative study, in the place from which people had come, as well as in the place to which they had gone. For the one, we chose a metropolitan borough, and for the other, an estate built in Essex since the war By the London County Council. The book is divided into two parte, the first describes the borough and the second, the estate.