British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley.
This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing.
This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "e;have-nots"e; can use to remove the power of the "e;haves.
The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroaching tide of right-wing politics and sweeping de-industrialisation.
For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman.
This book looks at the current trends in Athens, the capital city of Greece, and focuses on the processes of globalization it has been undergoing during the last two decades.
Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu.
The Books ';INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT Social and Economic Disparities', contains the toics Dairy Development in India; Developing the Capital Market in India; Development of Public Libraries in India; Economic Development in India; Hydropower Development in India; Industrial Development and Progress; Indian Derivatives Markets; The Development of Bond Market in India; Rural Development ; Information Technology and Rural Development in India; Infrastructure Development in India and Skill Development in India.
The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced.
Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978.
Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning.
This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore - understood as a new nation, a capitalist and emerging knowledge economy, a largely middle-class society, and a polity with a strong state - at the turn of the new millennium.
Seit mehr als drei Jahren wird die Menschheit weltweit durch politische Maßnahmen, vornehmlich in den Industriestaaten in Angst und Schrecken versetzt.
Conocer a Max Weber equivale a aprender las particularidades de la disciplina sociológica, el proceso de su configuración y los conflictos que la atraviesan.
Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA.
Society is a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns,, and institutions and institutions providing protection, secure, continuity and a national identity for its members.
Society is a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns,, and institutions and institutions providing protection, secure, continuity and a national identity for its members.
Named one of Choice's "e;Outstanding Academic Titles of 2024"e; A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.
Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award Nominated for the 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award AHamilton Review of BooksBest Book of 2023Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didnt make it to university.
El libro aborda el aparataje institucional constituido para seleccionar a los postulantes a la universidad, investigando los procesos y redes de trasfondo que le han ido dando forma a través de una historia de 170 años.
First published in 1955, Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure, relating mainly to contemporary British society.
The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied.
The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied.
First published in 1955, Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure, relating mainly to contemporary British society.
douard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' GuardianOne day, douard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago: a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams.
For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominantly through the figure of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's "e;forms of appearance.
This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major political, social and cultural crosscurrents.
Exploring the British Indian model minority discourse, this book is the first empirical and theoretical examination of high achieving British Indian students' lived experiences of schooling, education, teaching, and learning.
