Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below.
Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America.
';This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.
An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa's richest, most populous country cannot be trusted to ensure even the most basic infrastructure needs of their people.
How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person's place in society can close doors to opportunity, but we also tend to think that anything is possible when someone dreams about what might be.
In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.
'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture.
The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements.
Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in today's economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined.
The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior.
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.
