Social Classes

The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public i...

In a small Texas neighborhood, an affluent group of mothers has been repeatedly rocked by catastrophic floodingthe 2015 Memorial Day flood, the 201...

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

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...

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the citys greatest growth, between the 1830s and t...

This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about 4,631 individuals drawn from two...

The Salvation Army is well known for its work with the poor and disadvantaged. There is, however, much more to the story of the Salvation Army than...

The formulation egalitarian strangeness is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990...

Colonia Hermosa, now considered a suburb of Oaxaca, began as a squatter settlement in the 1950s. The original residents came in search of transfor...

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institut...

Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive b...

A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.   In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lyn...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are ...

Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnog...

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Am...

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in ...

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Political Dynamics, Social Inequality, and the Wellbeing of Americans examines the impacts of COVID-19 on political ineq...

The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colo...

David Downes' early work on delinquency in East London made an original contribution to the comparative study of anomie and subcultural theory, an...

Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies. While a complex calcul...

Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year. Malcolm X (a former auto worker) Written in a lively, accessible fashion and draw...

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports shar...

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying t...

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to j...

This is a classic study of Philadelphias business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulou...

For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominan...

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critica...

How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In Getting By, Donal...

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to j...

In the second edition of his essential bookwhich incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social c...

Toxic Ivory Towers seeks to document the professional work experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education, and sim...

1935, Bacon County, Georgia. The bite of the Great Depression was beginning to be felt in the rest of America, but its teeth had been in Bacon Coun...

Fresh, original, heartbreaking Reni Eddo-LodgeDevastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic Pandora Sykes'A mu...

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fas...

One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exception...

Going beyond one-size-fits-all approaches to treating depression and anxiety, this book is packed with tools for delivering flexible, personalized ...

An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the publics perception of justice. To...

Recasting Red Culture turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a di...

Honorable mention, 2018 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Many Americans stil...

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...

Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access ...

Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access ...

Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the Ame...