Social Classes

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...

This book traces the development of feminist consciousness in Japan from 1871 to 1941. Taeko Shibahara uncovers some fascinating histories as she ...

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything examines the remarkable triumphs of young people considered least likely to attain a coll...

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework fo...

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThroug...

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with thei...

Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advic...

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

The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of t...

The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of t...

About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pu...

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework fo...

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

2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College Selected as a 20...

As America has become more racially diverse and economic inequality has increased, American politics has also become more clearly divided by race a...

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing atti...

Life in a castle isnt always a fairytale, as the Duchess of Rutland reveals in her charming, funny and eye-opening autobiography.Never in her wilde...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

Chinas modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary...

First-person narratives of refugees, immigrants, and generations-long residents in Appalachia, highlighting how spaces of belonging, home, and conn...

'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writ...

This book explores the dominant constructions of childhood as perceived by children and adults in contemporary Indian society. It unveils the every...

Facets of Muslim Women in the Deccan: Echoes on Culture, Education, Work, and Health investigates Decan, a cultural and historical heart of India, ...

Technologies of Refuge and Displacement: Rethinking Digital Divides aims to theoretically and practically understand technology access and use from...

Colonial Capital Theory at Work: The Case of Jamaica contributes to our understanding of the emerging Caribbean and explains how some have intentio...

Black Middle-Class Women and Pregnancy Loss: A Qualitative Inquiry is the first qualitative research case study of its kind on Black Infant Mortali...

Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with nicenessa set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long...

This volume of Comparative Social Research emphasizes unsolved issues and new developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing bot...

Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's black middle class. 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The ...

Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upo...

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the ...

'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, SpectatorPoliticians say social mobility is real... this book proves ot...

About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pu...

Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to pass as steel workers, coal...

Are social classes meaningful to Americans? The question has attracted popular and scholarly debate since the founding of the Republic. The Jackman...

'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth g...

The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodges ...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a...

How's a queen to keep her head in the middle of a revolution? Marie Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her three-foot tall w...

This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low p...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye's debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we' Indep...

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political d...

Efforts to build bottom-up global labor solidarity began in the late 1970s and continue today, having greater social impact than ever before. In Bu...