Social Classes

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...

Reads like a fairy tale Far from frivolous, this biography draws on original research to give a nuanced account. The LadyImmerse yourself in The ...

Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the social factorythat is, the home, the family, the school, and above all womens...

Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, t...

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

In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker sys...

The Daily Mash, a British comedy institution since 2008, rips the p*ss out of everyone no matter what class they are, mistakenly believe they are o...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling aut...

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oliga...

The Richardson boys ganged up with two other big families in their buildings and, at various ages, had tried out most of the local youth organisati...

Written in 1954 and published here for the first time, The Social Background of Delinquency deals with the social climate in which juvenile delinqu...

Originally published in 1971, Homes in High Flats was written at a time when multi-storey flats were a popular solution to the world-wide need for ...

'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard'A full-thro...

There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However, the history o...

Caste is a contested terrain in Indias society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines...

How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, not far enough. This engaging and accessible work, ai...

A Guardian book to look out for in 2024 An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital ...

This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary Indi...

This book uses humour and personal insight to weave tales, analysis, and history in this insider account of an enlightened populist student movemen...

This book uses humour and personal insight to weave tales, analysis, and history in this insider account of an enlightened populist student movemen...

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scruti...

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scruti...

The book offers an in-depth analysis of several important theories of social class and stratification, both past and present. This critique is unde...

The book offers an in-depth analysis of several important theories of social class and stratification, both past and present. This critique is unde...