Social Classes

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goo...

Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colon...

After 1979, Labour lost eight of the next eleven general elections. Working-class voters deserted, starting in 1970 when widespread abstention bega...

This book provides a systematic account of the impact of COVID-19 on the digital labour process by situating its analysis within the broader and gl...

In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labour issues have been, and continue to be, in the forgin...

August Nimtz uncovers attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral camp...

In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, When the Welfare People Come exposes the system in its tota...

The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals...

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Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Membe...

Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family'...

'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell ‘We can expec...

A Times Book of the Year 2019'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times'A remarkable work and an important addition to ...

'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hi...

This stimulating and comprehensive study of the period between the establishment of the new Tudor administrative framework and the outbreak of the ...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities th...

A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world...

A surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, ...

Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces tha...

Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which a...

For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nati...