ABSTRACT
IN this chapter some of the current changes in working-class life are analysed with particular reference to life on municipal housing estates. Although there are a number of studies of estates built before the war, attention will with one exception be confined to post-war ones, because in this period the move to better housing was accompanied by an improvement in the national standard of living. The one exception-a recent study of a Dagenham estate built in the twenties-will test the relationship between these two groups of determinants.2
