Social Classes

In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were nei...

High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their...

Honorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college s...

The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centu...

This book is a study of the social and cultural change in Ming China's lower Yangzi delta region from about 1500 to 1644. It takes three social gro...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing...

The author finds that agrarian radicalism develops most readily in a way analogous to industrial class struggle: through the economic clash of homo...

While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffa...

A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to th...

In 1962, the author got into Cuba and interviewed workers on the subject of the Revolution. Professor Zeitlin examines the effects of the revolutio...

Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through languag...

Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation con...

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) remains one of the best examples of a labor union that traces its origins to radical anti-ra...

This book explores the relation between democracy and industrialization in United States history. Over the course of the 1930s, the political cente...

This study of twenty first century girlhoods and womanhoods charts a new area of scholarship on Kenya. The chapters investigate questions related t...

The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media, and Politics discusses the influence of the increasing use of digital technologies on media and poli...

Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an...

In the last decades, the Latin American middle class is growing in size while becoming more heterogeneous. Sustained economic growth explains its i...

During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vuln...

Why do some elites survive while others do not? How do certain institutions manage to preserve their importance in the face of crises, instability,...

Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advic...

By delving into the religious, economic, social, and political attitudes and practices of the French bourgeoisie in the 18th century, Mrs. Barber d...

Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDo...

Unlike previous histories which have generally described the uprisings of 1848-1849 as revolutions of "intellectuals," this shows that it was the e...

Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AID...

For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparat...

This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world...

This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century. The author ar...

Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and me...

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies?...