Social classes

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Though Asian Indians are typically thought of as a "e;model minority"e;, not much is known about the school experiences of their children.

What does it mean to be an intellectual in Egypt today?

Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely.

Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school.

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.

Silicon Valley : temple des nouvelles technologies, berceau d’entreprises mythiques comme Hewlett Packard, Intel ou encore Yahoo, symbole du capital-risque, de l’argent facile.

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and anti-discrimination policies across Europe and, in particular, the processes and collaborations involved in incorporating equality and diversity policies into trade union agendas.

Celebrated ad man Richard Kirshenbaum, the original New York observer, reveals the fashions, foibles, and outrageous extravagances of the private-jet set Paid friends.

Originally published in 1973, Paupers looks at poverty through the lens of class and the Welfare State.

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

In this groundbreaking study, Linda Cusworth explores the impact of parental employment or unemployment on the educational and emotional well-being of their children.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 2001, is comprised of original books published in conjunction with the British Sociological Association.

In the long shadow of dictatorship, young Spanish rebels fight for a truly free society.

Globalization and Technocapitalism considers the global reach of a new capitalist era, exploring the nature of 'technocapitalism' as grounded in new forms of accumulation, commodification, and corporate organization.

Material Feminisms: New Directions for Education provides a range of powerful theoretical and innovative methodological examples to illuminate how new material feminism can be put to work in education to open up new avenues of research design and practice.

What is the "e;American Dream"e;?

Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.

This textbook explores the emergence of sociology as a distinct social science.

The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States.

Those who are pursuing social justice too often fail to incorporate the insights of sociology, and when they do make use of sociology, they often draw heavily from claims that are highly contested, unsupported by the evidence, or outright false.

When The Vertical Mosaic first appeared in 1965, it became an instant classic.

National Wages Policy in War and Peace (1958) examines the thorny issue of inflation prevention, looking at a host of Western economies in the wartime and postwar period.

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.

Labouring to Learn examines academic mobility pathways among ethnic minority Tamil youths in public secondary schools and vocational institutions in Singapore.

This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates.

While conventional social problems textbooks focus on issues in the United States, Global Social Problems examines major problems around the world.

The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country's democracy and prosperity.

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.

This new volume explores the limits and possibilities of economic change in transforming the lives of women in rural Greece at a time of great economic and political change.

The TUC Overseas (1986) traces the decisions made by the Trades Union Congress in response to domestic and external influences and events, from its establishment of a joint international committee with the Labour Party in 1917 to the first congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945.

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.

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Staff Relations in the Civil Service (1973) describes the origins of the Civil Service National Whitley Council, the growing pains it endured in its early years, its major achievements and the role it played in industrial relations between staff in the civil service and their employers, the British Government.

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region.

Arranged around the themes of theorizing and policy-making, race, ethnicity and religion, gender, and class, inequality and welfare, this book addresses the question of whether the European Union tends towards diversification or standardization.

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour.

First published in 1939, this book sets out to refute some of the 'unjust charges laid at India's door' and correct the 'false impressions' that prevailed at the time.

Positioned within the discourse of neoliberalism and precarious work, this book draws on Guy Standing's notion of "e;the precariat"e; in an examination of the role of recruiting individuals as the key actors in labour recruitment and management practices that produce precarious work conditions.

Whilst learning is central to most understandings of what it is to be human, we now live in a knowledge society where being educated defines life chances more than ever before.

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in economic and political debates.

Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power that needs to be controlled by the hero.

This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.

From the 2023 Reith lecturer Politics is failing us.