Social Classes

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educa...

Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class womens survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on ...

Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class womens survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on ...

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements...

In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of...

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and...

A deeply empathetic (Publishers Weekly, starred review) must-read (Marion Nestle) that weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a ...

Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates...

In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured...

The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon...

The Other End of the Needle demonstrates that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an acc...

Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendas Famine brought ruin to the Iri...

Black Millennials is an edited collection of writings that speak to the unique experience of the Black millennial in regard to identity, career, an...

After World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, in spite of the communist principles espoused by the government. In Luxury and the...

A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ul...

Investigates how a rural town became a site of community-making, mobility, and identity formationIn 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart to...

A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ul...

Winner of the 2017 Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award presented by the Association for the Study of Connecticut HistoryBased on a treasure trove of more t...

(Under)Represented Latin@s in STEM: Increasing Participation Throughout Education and the Workplace presents a critical investigation into Latin@ ...

This book tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancien régime to the rise of the European Union...

Incisive analyses of mass media - including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornogra...