Social Classes

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in Americas history. For decades, writers from Cl...

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This companion is the first study of caste and its representation in Indian cinema. It unravels the multiple layers of caste that feature directly ...

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplina...

Literacy education has historically characterized mass media as manipulative towards young people who, as a result, are in need of close-reading sk...

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in tra...

Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cotta...

An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change...

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel l...

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without an...

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in tra...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...

With a title inspired by an angry text that the sleep deprived, post-partum author once sent to her husband, this book is a must for anyone fed up ...

The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of...

With a foreword by Angela GarbesFrom the president of the Economic Security Project, a book that shows how a just future is around the corner, if w...

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are availablebut e...

Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse. When we talk about class, we don't always kn...

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are availablebut e...

A deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics. The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to ...

Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia identifies the concept of the emancipatory network as a coordination of loose, discrete, an...

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unpr...

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unpr...

At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social disc...

Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Grams...

'Fascinating' Spectator'Entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Guardian'Beautiful, funny and moving' Daily Mail'Compelling and moving' Observer'Re...

Maeve ORiordan opens the doors of the country house (or the big house as it is often referred to) in Ireland to reveal the lives of women among the...

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Produced by a team of world-leading economists, this is the benchmark account of recent and historical trends in inequality.World Inequality Report...

One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of Americas public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new l...

To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (untouchables) in the South Indian city of Chennai. F...

The home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience. It has become increasingly clear that home is not a site...

Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the reg...

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerfu...

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerfu...

Organizing Anarchy details the remarkable growth and diversity of anarchist organizational practice in a range of spheres of activity, from communi...

The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN, and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the...

Examining how Marxist theory is lacking but much needed in a variety of analytical contexts, this book traces the theoretical maze in which Marxism...

Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of ...

Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of ...

The Sinking Middle Class challenges the save the middle class rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding c...

Fascisms ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in all of history. Yet, this...

The must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, wh...