Social Classes

Named one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial TimesA groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequa...

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse reve...

In Privatization in Turkey: Power Bloc, Capital Accumulation and State, Ahmet Zaifer offers a rare look at privatization in Turkey that involves al...

An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extractio...

The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries

Prepared by an international team of authors representing leading universities from different parts of the world, this expansive volume elucidates ...

According to Matteo Battistini, The 'middle class' has become a fetish forged by the social sciences to legitimize American capitalism. In this inv...

Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of attempts to understand root causes. Assembling multi-disciplinary a...

This book explores the life, mission, and writings of martyred Salvadorian archbishop St. Óscar Romero in the light of contemporary work for justic...

Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Mi...

Drawing on qualitative research conducted in the impoverished areas of Manila, Philippines, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in mode...

The ultimate insight into the ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives cent...

'A wonderfully enjoyable history of the changing fortunes of the middle orders over the past 500 years. A magisterial survey of the entire British ...

Leading lights of the NBA on why the fight for social justice and racial equality matters to themand to all of us At the root of this coalition, wh...

In a world gripped by endless crisis and climate breakdown, the demand to reshape our economic system has never been more urgent. Reclaiming the Fu...

In Racing to Justice, renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have yet to achieve a truly post-racial society a...

Land ownershipand engagement with land more generallyconstituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because ...

Land ownershipand engagement with land more generallyconstituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because ...

First published in 1944 (Sir Halley Stewart Lectures 1938), the original blurb reads: In Rich Man, Poor Man, Professor John Hilton examines the fac...

Translation of the 1969 Marathi classic Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is becoming cheap)A brothel exposes the intricate mechanisms of power and expl...

The untold history of how Americas student-loan program turned the pursuit of higher education into a pathway to poverty.It didnt always take thirt...

Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a fertility crisis. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do ...

Theorizing Social Class and Education presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the la...

This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on health, disease, and well-being. It spans a wide range...

Working for Ford (1984) describes just what it is like to work in a car factory, very often in the words of the workers themselves. It also reveals...

Economic Nationalism of the Danubian States (1928) examines the economic situations in the newly-configured countries of the basin of the Danube. T...

Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degrees. It takes a detailed loo...

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochsch...

First published in 1977, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive investigates the process of the transformation of Western society in the twentieth century. T...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe co...

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain larg...

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain larg...