Social classes

Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles.

Originally published in 1938, The Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes presents ethnological research into how rank and inequality has been created or formed in various societies.

This title details the culture, weapons, armour and training of the elite samurai warrior class in the fascinating Age of Battles period (1550-1600).

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.

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Freuden und Leiden der Nachbarschaft?

African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership.

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.

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement.

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes.

The Dalits, also known as untouchables, are often limited from equal and meaningful political participation due to the persistence of discriminatory practices and their weak economic, social and political position in caste-affected countries in India.

The eminent scholar Lewis R.

Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power.

Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms.

This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy.

Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world.

Classed Intersections examines the salience, transformation and tension of class analysis at a crucial juncture in its return to and reinvention of sociological agendas.

Dalits are a mixed population of numerous caste groups all over South Asia and speak various languages.

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.

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.

Using the way of storytelling, this book examines the petitions of the migrants of a dam in China.

This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century.

The eminent scholar Lewis R.

The relationship between the Conservative Party and the organised working class is fundamental to the making of modern British politics.

Racial tension in America has become a recurring topic of conversation in politics, the media, and everyday life.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence.

It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences.

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field.

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

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship.

First published in 1981.

Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.

Over the past few years there had been a dramatic increase in the number of women entering the surveying profession.

An Introduction to Industrial Relations (1991) analyses various theoretical approaches to industrial relations, and summarises the origins and development of the subject.

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.

This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India.

Vocational occupations are attractive not so much for their material rewards as for the prestige and self-fulfillment they confer.

The Dynamics of Managing Diversity and Inclusion was one of the first books to respond to growing academic coverage of the topic of diversity management at degree level.

Racial tension in America has become a recurring topic of conversation in politics, the media, and everyday life.

First published in 1985, this book explores the 'lived culture' of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States.

This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life.

A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s.

In this work, Professor Jordan continues his study of the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England.

This book explores a range of connections between India and Australia that fall outside the formal diplomacy of the two states.

Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe's leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author's deep insight into history and political analysis.

Women have very low status in the male dominated Indian society.

In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park.

Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers.

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.