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...