Social Classes

A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz ...

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her ...

A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those ...

From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair...

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Revie...

How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard ...

Carolyn Heilbrun, in Writing a Womans Life, states that books about the real lives of women arent written often enough. Women of Privilege is an at...

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of t...

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. ...

The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the eme...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France''s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guill...

This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of this form of political mobilization in the region...

Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and ...

Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barrier...

The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing in...

This magnificently illustrated peoples history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land ...

In 1980, Christine J. Walley's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In th...

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of C...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the Peoples Republic ...

'A Royal Christmas' is a Christmas pudding of a book, full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas ...

Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the ...

Middle-class Brits are embarrassed, awkward, and charmingly insecure in their tastes. The Art of Being Middle-Class, based on stories from cult blo...

Youre either buried with your crystals or your shotgun. That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some w...

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by great...

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. ...