Social classes

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

First published in 1930, the author asserts that this book presents a human India 'in all sorts of conditions and moods'.

SECOND EDITION COMING APRIL 2025In this book Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, presents a 21st century view of education and the working classesDrawing on over 500 interviews, the book includes vivid stories from working class children and young people.

Originally published in 1978, this book was written in response to the growing need for resource material for Home Economics courses in which the sociological content was becoming increasingly important.

Originally published in 1987 Pressure for the Poor looks at the debate surrounding the role of pressure groups in policy making.

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture.

Dalit women are mostly deprived, socially excluded, less literate, absentee of property rights, and less empowerment socially and economically.

First published in 1998, this volume reflects that, ever since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism twenty years ago, scholars have tested his thesis against the wider application of his terms to cultural practices and the rhetoric of power.

Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty provides a much-needed alternative to the Radical Right's analysis.

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.

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography.

Learn how to better address the needs of the homelessThe causes of homelessness are complex and varied.

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology.

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse revealing the cultural, social and literary significance of these working-class texts.

This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade.

First published in 1977.

“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.

Margaret Greville of Polesden Lacey, who styled herself 'Mrs Ronnie', rose from obscure and humble origins to become a fabulously wealthy and ambitious society hostess, traveling the world and acquiring a portfolio of movie stars, monarchs, maharajahs and millionaires.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have disrupted the daily lives of children in innumerable ways.

In this landmark volume, Greg J.

"e;A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities.

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.

As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing.

Now a Washington Post bestseller.

In this comprehensive volume, authors from across the social sciences explore how housing wealth transfers have impacted the integration of families, society and the economy, with a focus on the (re)negotiation of the 'generational contract'.

In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.

We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world.

Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from first-hand experience.

In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor.

This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?

A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history.

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

Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion.

Covering the entire period from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, this book is the first scholarly history of the homeless in America.

For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other.

Class is a particularly troublesome issue in the United States and other rich capitalist societies.

The problem of citizenship has long affected Latin America, simultaneously producing inclusion and exclusion, division and unity.

Examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in China.

'Intensely readable.

Extrait : "La médiocre instruction que j'ai reçue (je ne suis allé à l'école que jusqu'à l'âge de treize ans) ne me permet pas de me mettre au niveau d'un écrivain ; je suis tout simplement un ancien commerçant qui, par suite de son amour pour la classe ouvrière, a essayé de lui désiller les yeux en lui montrant le danger qu'il y a pour elle à écouter certains journalistes qui ne vivent qu'en entretenant les grèves et fermentant les révolutions.

';Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the ';social factory'that is, the home, the family, the school, and above all women's labor, on which the productivity and pacification of industrial relations was made to rest.

El llamado "despertar muisca" es un gran proyecto de las actuales comunidades y organizaciones para que su cultura y sus espacios de representación retornen al centro del campo etnopolítico de Colombia.

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

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.

Beautiful Solutions brings together some of the world's most innovative community leaders to share examples of a new economy under construction.

WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE JOHN MCGAHERN PRIZE 2024WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Sean is back.

Society is often talked about as a ladder, which you can climb from bottom to top.