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Reports the findings of a combined questionnaire and interview study. Professional/managerial mothers were found to give work a higher priority and to allow work to intrude upon their family lives. Conversely, working-class women tended to give their families the highest priority, and family concerns were more likely to intrude upon work. Single mothers were dominated by the structural impact of divorce, role overload, and anxiety. (Abstract amended)

Explores the roots of industrial relations policy under the French Fifth Republic. Challenged by radical unions, employers and the right formulated a common consensus-minded response. If employers came to accept company bargaining and workplace expression under the Auroux Laws, it was because under depressive market conditions they were able to dominate the new institutions. Despite commitment to deregulation Chirac has preserved the laws and urged the cooperation of unions and management to achieve greater labour market flexibility. (Abstract amended)

The choice of the word 'perspective' in the title of this lecture exploits the ambiguity to which the English language so happily lends itself. For the lecture will, on the one hand, look back over the valley of the years at the research project on technology and agrarian change in two rice-growing areas, one in Sri Lanka and the other in Tamil Nadu, which was organized from the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridgejust over ten years ago, remembering some of its findings (see Farmer, 1977) and discussing certain further changes that have taken place in the study area and elsewhere in South Asia in those ten years. The project, it should be said, was inter-disciplinary; involved both sample surveys and studies in depth; and can claim to have attained the fruitful relationship between disciplines and between techniques of field study that some have described as 'hard to achieve' (e.g., Hoben and Timberg, 1980).