Social Classes

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. This book problematizes th...

This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how ...

In this emotional and insightful memoir about nannying for New York Citys richest families, Stephanie Kiser chronicles her journey through the worl...

Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes from shifting relations between social groups and evolving lan...

This volume focuses on queer aspects of literary lives, which result from or cause various in/securities. By focusing on moments of irritation, or ...

Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how taking a knee triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriterThe Kaepernick E...

This is a landmark intellectual history of Britains working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers memoirs...

A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies. Not all countries are unequ...

A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies. Not all countries are unequ...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums...

Facing the reality of the social transformation in contemporary China, this book analyzes the structure, nature and influence of social classes in ...

This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists ...

The MacArthur grantwinning environmental justice activists riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for Americas most vulnerable A S...

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Cl...

In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, as well as his many years of international...

A pipe bomb in Seattle . . . An armored car hijacking in California . . . The high-stepping stomp of slam-dancing skinheads in Dallas . . . and the...

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable ...

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Cl...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19s devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled wi...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19s devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled wi...

Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

In this important study, Raju J Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contempora...

Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which e...

The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flo...

Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enha...

The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-in...

A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelElite colleges a...

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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, w...

Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with,...

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these pe...

Here is a broad and richly documented examination of a little studied social group--the German nobility outside Prussia. Gregory Pedlow considers t...