Social Classes

Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic eff...

Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellec...

Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to ex...

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large ...

The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sancti...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

In many European countries, processes of individualisation have contributed to transforming the middle class into a multitude of people, a sort of ...

Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the tw...

Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the tw...

Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zeal...

This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the U...

A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has ...

In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a cri...

In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a cri...

During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a ...

This book is about long-term changes to class and inequality in Poland. Drawing upon major social surveys, the team of authors from the Polish Acad...

Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America's workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the rel...

What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobo...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are ...

This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century. National trends in employment, welfa...

Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality explores and critiques the widespread perception in the United States that one...

Burnt by Democracy traces the political ascendance of neoliberalism and its effects on youth. The book explores democracy and citizenship as descri...

Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...

Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...

Analyzes the mechanisms of repression, applying new aspects. Repression was mainly conducted through a bureaucratic process where individual denunc...

Winner, 2024 Bourdieu Best Book Award, given by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, Outs...

British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Prof...

The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sancti...