Social classes

The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just below the surface of many great houses.

How a new ';woke' elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and statuswithout helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarianin theory.

How a new ';woke' elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and statuswithout helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarianin theory.

A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to liveA Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial TimesShortlisted for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Non-FictionHu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated.

When Work Isn't Enough: The Collapse of the American Dream shatters the illusion that hard work alone can secure a stable life in today's economy.

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'A modern-day Grapes of Wrath that exposes corporate America s skulduggery' IRISH TIMES'Wonderful .

Your science-backed, evidence-based guide to thriving with PMOS (AKA PCOS)Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome until recently known as PCOS affects 1 in 10 women, and is the leading cause of infertility, weight gain and irregular periods.

How sharing a home with extended family or friends serves as a crucial, but imperfect, private safety net for families with childrenMore than fifteen percent of US childrenover eleven millionlive in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends.

How sharing a home with extended family or friends serves as a crucial, but imperfect, private safety net for families with childrenMore than fifteen percent of US childrenover eleven millionlive in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends.

Smashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain.

Smashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain.

'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane'Absolutely brilliant.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.

HarperCollins is proud to present this masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp, as part of our range of timeless literary classics.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.

Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day.

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Poverty Is a Super Power is not inspiration and it is not a rags-to-riches fairytale.

In seinem Bestseller Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung (2023) thematisiert Dirk Oschmann die fremde, oft degradierende Perspektive der Alt- auf die Neu-Bundesburger.

Después de sus aportaciones a la sociología contemporánea, mediante las cuales este destacado investigador ha definido las inestabilidades de las relaciones humanas y de los propios individuos como "la modernidad líquida", el autor nos entrega esta crítica de la cultura del consumo de las sociedades actuales.

Con una mirada fria y penetrante, Veblen hace un comentario vasto e intemporal de la conducta de quienes poseen riqueza o andan en pos de ella.

The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first timeMiles Franklin s debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn closely modelled on Franklin herself as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life.

Dilemas en movimiento dialoga con varias de las interpretaciones disponibles sobre uno de los episodios mas relevantes de la historia reciente en Colombia: el estallido social de 2021.

El libro recopila más de quinientas frases que surgieron en las calles de Santiago y otras ciudades de Chile durante las protestas de 2019 en pleno estallido social, reflejando las aspiraciones del pueblo por dignidad y justicia.

"La pregunta de Octubre" es una obra que analiza histórica y críticamente la fundación, apogeo y crisis del neoliberalismo chileno para comprender las causas que llevaron al surgimiento de la revuelta popular en Chile en octubre del año 2019.

La precarización laboral y de la vida es un rasgo del capitalismo contemporáneo a nivel global.

La obra posiciona la discusión en la relación entre el trabajo y la producción de subjetividad, considerando las temáticas como producción, división del trabajo, salud mental y explotación en sus nuevas formas que han transitado en las instituciones

Este libro analiza las poblaciones de Santiago de Chile desde 1950 al 2000, revelando cómo los pobladores han desafiado los paradigmas de la propiedad y del Estado, y también lo que ha significado la extensión de la propiedad privada

Poverty isn't always a jumble of appalling statistics.

A lo largo de tres décadas de trasnsformaciones, si tuviéramos éxito, la Argentina debería definirse por las siguientes características:- Abolición de la propiedad privada- Elevadísimo desarrollo tecnológico- Jornada de 6 horas para todos- Treinta y cinco años de vida laboral total- 90 años de expectativa de vida- Salud, vivienda y educación aseguradas desde el minuto uno de vida- Pobreza cera- Desocupación cero- Educación universitaria obligatoria- Todos los cargos políticos electivos y revocables- Administración mínima- Participación plena de la población en todas las decisiones importantes de la vida socialEstos elementos son los que hacen posible lo que denominamos una ¨buena vida¨.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard'A full-throated defence of the inherent value of making, experiencing and talking about art' Frieze'Let me stay there, let me paint.

In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.

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"e;The Chinese Revolution"e; offers a compelling and in-depth exploration of one of the most transformative periods in modern history.

Urban slums, particularly Muslim-majority informal settlements, are often overlooked in global development agendas.

The Spanish Civil War was one of the most dramatic and ideologically charged conflicts of the twentieth century.

A Bar Where Nobody Orders Drinks is a cultural analysis of a familiar Korean scene that now feels subtly different: tables are full, conversation is long, food orders are abundant—yet bottles stay nearly untouched.

Este libro pone la lupa en Nordelta, el barrio cerrado mas grande de Latinoamerica, que cada tanto se convierte en noticia por la sobreabundancia de carpinchos o por las protestas de las empleadas domesticas.

Brief an eine Lehrerin (1967) ist ein schmales kollektives Werk, das im Italien der Sechziger- und Siebzigerjahre bald zu einem Vademecum für demokratische Lehrpersonen und zu einem Manifest für die Studentenbewegung wurde.

Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people.

A special collectors edition packed with never-before-seen archival material, this is the definitive inside story of grime: raw, unfiltered, and impossible to ignore.

';The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.