Social Classes

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...

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...