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Childhood and family life have changed significantly in recent decades. What is the nature of these changes? How have they affected the use of time, space, work and play? In what ways have they influenced face-to-face talk and the uses of technology within families and communities? Eminent anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath sets out to find answers to these and similar questions, tracking the lives of 300 black and white working-class families as they reshaped their lives in new locations, occupations and interpersonal alignments over a period of thirty years. From the 1981 recession through the economic instabilities and technological developments of the opening decade of the twenty-first century, Shirley Brice Heath shows how families constantly rearrange their patterns of work, language, play and learning in response to economic pressures. This outstanding study is a must-read for anyone interested in family life, language development and social change.

African american children --- English language --- Language and culture --- Sociolinguistics --- Language arts & disciplines --- Language. --- Dialects --- Linguistics --- General. --- Families --- Social interaction --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Germanic languages --- Social aspects --- Employment --- Social conditions --- African American children --- Afro-American children --- Children, African American --- Negro children --- Children --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Sociological aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language