Social classes

One of The New York Times's 100 notable books of 2021"e;[George Packer's] account of America's decline into destructive tribalism is always illuminating and often dazzling.

Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day.

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

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.

History is a weapon.

A Country House Extravaganza Story by Jilly Cooper.

'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial Times What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India?

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer and poet whose work famously examined the results of industrialisation on contemporary society.

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

This book is the second volume of Charles Dickens' 1857 novel, "e;Little Doritt"e;.

As the 1960's drew to a close, parents across Britain raised a curious eyebrow as their long-haired children suddenly returned home with shaven heads, sporting Levi's jeans and vicious looking army boots, pleading for three quid to buy a Harrington jacket from the market.

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.

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world.

It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century.

'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell'We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters .

An attentive critique on contemporary realitymodernity, capitalism, industrializationthis first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for the dislocated, disillusioned people of our time.

This antiquarian book contains Jack London's 1911 novel, "e;Adventure"e;.

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

Satirizing the tedium of upper-middle-class life in post-war London, this novel depicts a world in which substance is far less important to anyone than appearance.

40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Mike Leigh.

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

An attentive critique on contemporary realitymodernity, capitalism, industrializationthis first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for the dislocated, disillusioned people of our time.

This book is the first volume of Charles Dickens' 1857 novel, "e;Little Doritt"e;.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

In Break the Caste, George Gerharz unmasks common American misperceptions of poverty, inequality, and social mobility.

"e;A herd of independent minds,"e; Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals.

Bringing together analyses from different fields-law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis-Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism.

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule.

Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history.

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?

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

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.

At the Roots, Reaching for the Sky chronicles nearly 40 years of my experience working with families and children in neighborhoods in the city of St.

For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.