Social Classes

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...

Is there a better way than capitalism? A much-cited recent poll found that more young Americans have a positive view of socialism than of capitali...

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...

In today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, t...

History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourse...

The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, m...

Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes. While a country's endowments constitute the deep determinates of growth, the traject...

**Explore the fascinating history of the real Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen with Downton Abbey, the m...

The Irish Establishment is a study of the country's most powerful men and women in the years 1879 to 1914: who they were, how they gained their pow...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...

There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid clas...

In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA fr...

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Start...

Pamela Jackson, née Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more...

From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection ...

The BBC television series Downton Abbey (2010-2016) developed and produced by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes, became a cultural barometer wit...

Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victo...

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In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry ...