Social Classes

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study ...

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their univer...

The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population a...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Middle class executives are the people who've done everything right - gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills and build up impressive r...

The themes running through the book are friends and friendships. It is not an academic study of friendship. It is about the relationships with some...

Abolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end forced labor, much of it unpaid, in American prisons. It draws on interviews with formerly ...

Adapted by James Ivory from André Acimans novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among...

The first book from this popular columnist and interviewer mixes autobiography with witty and pungent social analysis, laced with wicked anecdotes ...

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookA devastating investigation into the corporate poverty complexthe myriad businesses that profit from the poor ...

The protagonist of The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization is a bottom worker. Bottom workers...

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in Americas history. For decades, writers from Cl...

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of c...

This companion is the first study of caste and its representation in Indian cinema. It unravels the multiple layers of caste that feature directly ...

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplina...

Literacy education has historically characterized mass media as manipulative towards young people who, as a result, are in need of close-reading sk...

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in tra...

Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cotta...

An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change...

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel l...

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 an...

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in tra...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...

With a title inspired by an angry text that the sleep deprived, post-partum author once sent to her husband, this book is a must for anyone fed up ...

The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of...

With a foreword by Angela GarbesFrom the president of the Economic Security Project, a book that shows how a just future is around the corner, if w...