Social Classes

This is the history of England's turbulent times, told through the stories of the country's nobility. The book begins with the Norman Conquest in 1...

We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suit...

Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and...

Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how todays trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elite...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye''s debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we'' Inde...

'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened ...

'Powerful, vital and visionary' - Jimmy McGovern SOMETHING unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown...

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world. A constant critic of power a...

Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migra...

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian...

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, ...

Nobody is a powerful and eye-opening examination of the deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Gar...

In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublins tenements. If it werent for hi...

The sociopolitical, and cultural, implications of the provision and consumption of elite education are dizzyingly complex and controversial. Perhap...

Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and ...

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. I...

From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central rol...