Social classes

This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants.

Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research.

In light of the recent financial crisis and changing economic landscape, McNamara and Williamson present and analyze the possibility of working longer.

Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility.

Originally published in 1985, this collection of essays expands the understanding of both health itself and the ways in which women may experience their roles as consumers and providers of health care.

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.

Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as untouchable.

Fifty years ago, familiar images of the lottery would have been strange, as no state lottery existed then.

Recognizing the need for increased social justice in the fields of TESOL and English language teaching (ELT) globally, this volume presents a range of international case studies and empirical research to demonstrate how English language instruction can promote social and linguistic justice through advocacy-oriented pedagogies and curricula.

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.

The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, Eleventh Edition reveals how social class affects our everyday lives, from who we marry and how we raise our kids to where we live and how we vote.

Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments, and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, maintained, enforced, contested, adjudicated and dreamt about for over two millennia of western history.

The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work.

In the United States, social class ranks with gender, race, and ethnicity in determining the values, activities, political behavior, and life chances of individuals.

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression.

Neoliberalism and Education: Rearticulating Social Justice and Inclusion offers a critical reflection on the establishment of neoliberalism as the new global orthodoxy in the field of education, and considers what this means for social justice and inclusion.

Over one-sixth of India's population, some 170 million people, live a precarious existence, shunned by much of Indian society because of their rank as -untouchables- or Dalits literally meaning -broken- people-at the bottom of India's caste system.

'Cracking entertainment.

Despite becoming a big issue in public debate, social mobility is one of the most misunderstood processes of our time.

First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime, and presents its own findings on these matters.

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.

This book offers a unique discursive perspective on the rapid rise of food charity and how food poverty has emerged as a symptom of deeper problems requiring psychological intervention.

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty.

Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes.

Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India.

This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research.

American Living Standards contends that the central problem of the U.

Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyzes social struggles over damaging new fossil fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa's biggest fossil fuel emitter.

First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society, this volume reissues the stand-alone Homo Sociologicus for which the author wrote a new introduction when it was originally published in 1973.

Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India.

This was Peter Kropotkin's final book, in which he theorizes about the development of the modern state and how modern science and technology can assist in freeing working people from capitalism.

The second volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies maps the distribution of social powers and associated properties and lifestyles in unparalleled detail by examining the results of a brand-new survey delivered in Sweden, Germany and the US.

In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class.

This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia.

Culture will keep you fit and healthy.

For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works (Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie, including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; General Economic History; and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations) have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated volume.

A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher in modernity.

First published in 1955, Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure, relating mainly to contemporary British society.

Black Los Angeles started small.

Future Primitive is Zerzan's iconic and long out-of-print work.

Social Inequality - examining our present while understanding our past.

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educational ambitions.

Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh is a pioneering attempt by the reputed scholars to bring together not only the all aspects of the history and culture of Bangladesh but also provides factual details of the geographical features, philosophy, religion, socio-economic life of rural and urban people, history of politics and political developments, folk culture, art and architecture, literature, dance and drama, painting, and women and their socio-political status of Bangladesh since the earliest time to present day in a logical sequence.

First published in 1909, the purpose of this book was to draw attention to the political, social and religious changes that were taking place in India and detail how this should inform British colonial policy.

This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.

Achille Loria was a well-known Italian political economist and this translation of his work presents his views and discussions on famous socialist Karl Marx, bringing his work to an English audience.

Examines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s–80s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.