Social classes

In her timely new book, Teresa M.

The Philippines is among the most successful migrant-sending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market.

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life changeand what do we do it transform it?

Can a man of humble birth outwit a world built to exclude him?

Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were placed in their homes until marriage.

Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were placed in their homes until marriage.

Balkan Blues explores how a state transitions from the collectivized production and distribution of socialism to the consumer-focused culture of capitalism.

Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history?

In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program.

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality.

In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest.

Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad.

Born to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journalist.

A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century.

It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers.

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life changeand what do we do it transform it?

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workersa sociological exploration that reads like a novel.

*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.

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

Occupy gives Noam Chomsky's thoughts on a movement which swept the world 'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?

'This book flips your world upside down.

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less.

This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation.

Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s.

Edited by leading British sociologists of stratification, this book advances contemporary debates in class analysis.

An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes.

A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing-how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities.

A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.

A collection of twenty-three studies that explore the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility.

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

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 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.

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

Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy.

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

An all-too-popular explanation for why black students aren't doing better in school is their own use of the "e;acting white"e; slur to ridicule fellow blacks for taking advanced classes, doing schoolwork, and striving to earn high grades.

An all-too-popular explanation for why black students aren't doing better in school is their own use of the "e;acting white"e; slur to ridicule fellow blacks for taking advanced classes, doing schoolwork, and striving to earn high grades.

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.