Social classes

This book originates from a comparative research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on socioeconomic outcomes of the global financial crisis in all major world regions during the last years.

The Obama presidency represented a major milestone in African American history.

This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation.

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.

The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Dalits In India (Human Rights: Problems And Perspectives), 12th written by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva' was published in the year 2002.

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in America's major symphony orchestras.

Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history?

This book explores a research project focused on finding a community-level response to the opioid epidemic.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA.

Dieses Buch widmet sich einigen empirischen Blind Spots in der Forschung zu Jugendlichen in marginalisierten Wohngebieten.

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.

Katrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Americans' first attempts to forge a national identity coincided with the apparent need to define--and limit--the status and rights of Native Americans.

Discover strategies to reinforce the strengths of the youngest members of society What assistance can be provided to a disadvantaged youngster to help them bounce back to conquer challenges while growing up?

Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and often camouflaged ways.

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does.

In this inside look at worker cooperatives, Joan Meyers challenges long-held views and beliefs.

War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought.

First published in 1999, this much-needed volume powerfully re-evaluates attitudes to the 'deserving and 'undeserving' poor and aims to investigate social workers' attitudes and actions towards poverty issues, social service users who have needed financial help and to question whether learning about poverty is an integrated part of social work students' training and social workers' in-service training.

Most European countries have experienced labour market reforms at varying times leading to extended working life and a postponement of retirement age.

How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck.

This edited collection explores the continuing appeal of nationalism around the world.

Antiracist Research on K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation: Policy Making, Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Practices provides current research on anti-racist education in teacher education and K-12 education.

Marx's Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx's early and late work.

Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal.

This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario.

A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature.

The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States.

"e;I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp.

In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do.

In the contentious debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women can decide if they work, while working-class women need to work.

Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today.

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

The book is an essential resource for those interested in investigating the lives, histories, and futures of indigenous peoples around the world.

"Aber wir sind doch alle gleich!

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences.

As there are different races and people in the world, so there are different cultures - meaning that cultural diversity is inevitable.

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico.

This book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology, exposing how they promote neoliberalism's underlying ideas, values and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality, undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and the common good.

The landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations--now revised and expanded.

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.

Agenda for Change (1991) examines the experiences of five industrialised market economies in a period of profound change in industrial relations.

Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.

Inequality is one of the most burning issues of our time, affecting young people in particular.

Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century.

This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy - Marxism - to sustained criticism.