Social Classes

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles fr...

An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles fr...

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defi...

Examining the attitudes toward the education of the lower classes in eighteenth- century France, Harvey Chisick uncovers severe limitations to enli...

Award-winning artist, writer and broadcaster Scottee grew up around mould, mice and second-hand clothes. After a chance meeting with some posh kids...

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Start...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...

Dinomania Wildly inventive theatre company Kandinsky return with a head-spinningly smart show about Victorian fossil huntersNo-one else makes thea...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern ...

A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultur...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women. Yet many do so, usually planning, even as they quit...

The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences, Edward Ab...

Immigrant women are not only at greater risk of experiencing domestic violence but they also under-utilize mainstream services because their needs ...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

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...