Social Classes

A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s Br...

How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didnt help) their commu...

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...

Makris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrific...

This book examines the who, what, when, where, and how of elite-white-male dominance in U.S. and global society. In spite of their domination in th...

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United St...

This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication i...

Revealing Britains Systemic Racism applies an existing scholarly paradigm (systemic racism and the white racial frame) to assess the implications o...

Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society uses a historical and conceptual framework to explain social stratification and social in...

This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a scientific approach to understand...

This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition c...

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy...

Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution makes accessibleand in some cases available in English for the first timea selection of speeches and televi...

In this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russia...

In Acquiring Modernity, Paul B. Paolucci, updating classical theory, examines the nature of modern society. Investigated from a sociological perspe...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go...

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

Through extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices o...

Choice Award Outstanding Academic Title 2022 Despite being repeatedly declared out of touch and outdated, Karl Marx's ideas have never mattered mo...

In this rousing study, Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need a new approach to fundamental questions to turn back neoliberal economic policy. Th...

Weaponized Whiteness by Fran Shor interrogates the meanings and implications of white supremacy and, more specifically, white identity politics fro...

In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that fol...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go...

In The Politics of Public Debt, Daniel Bin analyzes how fiscal and monetary policies and the administration of public debt related to class, labor,...

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privile...

The traditional Marxian picture of a two-class polarisation seems far removed from today's diverse society. Re-examining the very foundations of th...

What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social cont...

This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and wh...

This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and wh...

Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explor...

Bringing together sociology of the body with powerful examinations of educational theory and social class, Henry examines how children's experience...