Social Classes

The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was keeping up appearances m...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing...

First published in 1852, Charles Elmé Francatellis A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes features 241 recipes suitable for small budgets. Fr...

Women of Privilege traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family where the neighbours were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelt...

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further.  Food bank queues are growing, levels of s...

Since the publication of Michele Alexander's The New Jim Crow books on the criminal justice system have proliferated. In distinction from most of t...

In this important work of scholarship sure to reshape the landscape of critical social sciences, Raju Das offers a critique of many of the influent...

Since its inception, Development Studies has tended to restrict its critical enquiries to nations in the 'Third World.' The field's important studi...

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literatures best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressibl...

In Identifying a Free Society Milan Zafirovski offers a holistic sociological approach to modern free society as a total social system. The book ex...

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal courtand denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe ...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces womens journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on ...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces womens journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on ...

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists Winner of the C. Wrigh...

A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn...