Social Classes

A passionate account of how the gulf between France''s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guill...

This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of this form of political mobilization in the region...

Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and ...

Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barrier...

The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing in...

This magnificently illustrated peoples history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land ...

In 1980, Christine J. Walley's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In th...

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of C...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the Peoples Republic ...

'A Royal Christmas' is a Christmas pudding of a book, full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas ...

Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the ...

Middle-class Brits are embarrassed, awkward, and charmingly insecure in their tastes. The Art of Being Middle-Class, based on stories from cult blo...

Youre either buried with your crystals or your shotgun. That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some w...