Social classes

Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts.

Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself.

How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.

"e;Poulantzas is a sophisticated Marxist theoretician who straddles the fields of sociology and political science.

The reign of Alexander I was a pivotal moment in the construction of Russia's national mythology.

The reign of Alexander I was a pivotal moment in the construction of Russia's national mythology.

Longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize, Phil Ormrod's searing play, Isaac Came Home from the Mountain is about searching for a future in the dying heart of England.

A family held together with one lifeline food.

The global economy is a mess.

This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life.

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021***'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones'Work hard, get paid.

On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised.

If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates.

Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments.

Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later.

Political theatre thrives on turbulence.

History is a weapon.

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century.

Inequality is widening.

Drawing on a variety of sources, ranging from interviews with key figures to unpublished archival material, Saban Halis Calis traces this ambition back to the 1930s.

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'.

Inequality is widening.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires.

Drawing on a variety of sources, ranging from interviews with key figures to unpublished archival material, Saban Halis Calis traces this ambition back to the 1930s.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change.

Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity.

With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class.

This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs.

In his new book, G,ran Therborn - author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society - looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective.

In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in "e;post-Marxist"e; theory.

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers as they fight a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society.

The "e;public sphere"e; is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action.

One of the major works of the new American Marxism, Wright's book draws a challenging new class map of the United States and other, comparable, advanced capitalist countries today.

What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce?

'A tenderly evoked and compelling read.

Britain's welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society.

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In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative.

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative.

This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa.

This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa.

John Griffith London (1876 - 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist.

In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live.

Understanding how Kate Middleton can be conceived in the current geopolitical situation

This volume of "e;Comparative Social Research"e; emphasizes unsolved issues and new developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both theoretical and methodological innovations and revisions.

Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough.