Social Groups

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of t...

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. ...

The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the eme...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France''s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guill...

This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of this form of political mobilization in the region...

Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and ...

Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barrier...

The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing in...

This magnificently illustrated peoples history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land ...

In 1980, Christine J. Walley's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In th...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the Peoples Republic ...