Social Discrimination & Inequality

This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-...

The American press and American television news have been filled with stories from Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow, Lódz, and other Polish cities and towns....

The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion pla...

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (182893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he shou...

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the global(i...

America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

Much has been written about the men and women who shaped the field of advertising, some of whom became legends in the industry. However, the contri...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geograph...

If you had just one wish for the study of human development, what would it be? How would it advance the field? And what would it take for your visi...

A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a ...

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the polic...

Africans are not literally black, yet they are called black. Why? This book explores the genesis and evolution of the description of Africans as bl...

Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England dur...

The 2008 financial crisis led the whole world to ask questions of the financial industry. Why are wages in the financial industry so high? Are bonu...

Despite nearly two decades of advocacy for equal education and employment, women remain clustered in the lowest-paid, lowest-status jobs in clerica...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or pra...

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. Mc...

First published in 1997, this volume recognises the issue of gender inequality in Hong Kong housing. The invisibility of the housing problem is com...

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuse...