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  • The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
    Friedrich Engels
    2012 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally written in German and published in English in 1892 this is a classic a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels’ first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart...
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    13,25 €

  • A Life Worth Living? the Life of a Miner in the North East of England in the Late 20th Century
    Ned Cowen
    Based on a first-hand account of a worker involved in campaigning for better rights and conditions for himself and his co-workers, this book reveals how one individual working in the mining industry in the UK in the second half of the 20th century managed to effect real change. His words and actions are truly inspirational and serve as a timely reminder of how far we've come, a...
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    21,15 €

  • Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore
    Marisela B. Gomez / Marisela BGomez
    Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, ar...
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    156,60 €

  • ’The better class’ of Indians
    A. Martin Wainwright / A. Wainwright / AMartin Wainwright
    This book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion. ...
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    35,53 €

  • Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
    Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnograph...
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    44,54 €

  • The Communist Manifesto [Manifesto of the Communist Party]
    Friedrich Engels / Karl Marx
    2012 Reprint of 1910 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'The Communist Manifesto,' originally titled 'Manifesto of the Communist Party' is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world’s most influential political manu...
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    7,01 €

  • Access to Inequality
    Amy E. Stich / Amy EStich
    In the interest of uncovering the mechanisms through which democratization, as currently conceived, preserves and perpetuates inequality within the system of higher education, this bookreconsiders the role of social class in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the valuation of cultural capital, and the reproduction of social inequality. ...
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    123,98 €

  • Social Status and Cultural Consumption
    Tak Wing Chan
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    57,69 €

  • Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain
    Brett Bebber
    A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women’s leisure, dance, football and drug culture. ...
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    169,80 €

  • Inside the College Gates
    Jenny M. Stuber / Jenny MStuber
    This book is intended to bring greater nuance to the study of inequality and higher education. Rather than focusing on human capital and students' experiences inside the classroom, the author highlights the ways in which the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a setting in which social class inequalities m...
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    64,21 €

  • Human Thought and Social Organization
    Dwight Read / Murray J. Leaf / Murray JLeaf
    Two characteristics of human beings as a species are: the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. This book shows how these two characteristics are related by determining the conceptual structures that are fundamental to human thought and social organization. ...
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    195,63 €

  • FOR-GET
    Bucciferro / Claudia Bucciferro
    FOR-GET presents an intimate look at personal and cultural identity in post-Pinochet Chile. The analysis focuses on issues of gender, class, and politics, within the context of globalization and modernity. It reveals multiple conflicts between media representations and people’s perceptions, proposing a new intercultural model for understanding identity and communication. ...
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    57,26 €

  • El Altar del Perro
    Mandutre
    En el 'Altar del perro', Mandutre nos expone con gracia y crudeza algunas de las consecuencias de un grave problema social: la pobreza. Muchas mujeres, en estado de indefensión, se ven obligadas a prostituirse para obtener dinero y, así, satisfacer sus necesidades básicas y sus deseos más personales.La belleza de algunas de estas mujeres es la llave que les permite acceder a un...
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    11,08 €

  • Rich, Free, and Miserable
    brueggemann / John Brueggemann
    Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable—at work, at home, or both. This provocative book unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface. Author John Brueggemann not only outlines these pressing social problems, but als...
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    46,05 €

  • To Marry an English Lord
    Carol McD Wallace / Gail MacColl
    Gilded Age American Heiresses Take on the PeerageIn 1895 nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil), and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realm—among them, a duke, an earl, three barons, and a knight. It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began in the Gilded Age after the Civil War, and ha...
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    21,12 €

  • Mediated Images of the South
    Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Slade, Givens-Carroll, and Narro, seeks to explore and understand the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture by looking at images in politics, film, television, public relations, advertising, sports and social media. ...
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    132,01 €

  • Working-class suburb
    Mark Clapson
    An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice
    W. R. Brookman / William Robert Brookman / WRBrookman
    What do we really know about the ins and outs of the lives of those who exist in a world of extreme poverty or oppression. This thought-provoking book incorporates challenges for a Christian response regarding those whose daily plights fly in the face of what Scripture teaches about justice. ...
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    54,45 €

  • Lumpencity
    While it has been fashionable to think that academic research benefits marginalized groups, representational and methodological choices have often served to produce and legitimize marginalizing practices. The contributions to this volume reveal how authors have sought to engage with and transform their scholarly repertoires into tools of analysis useful for political action. W...
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    51,84 €

  • Equality and the British Left
    Ben Jackson
    Newly available in paperback, the first comprehensive historical study of egalitarian ideas advocated by the British Left. Offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought, will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory and to anyone interested in contemporary political debates on progressive politics. ...
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    29,44 €

  • Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South
    Jennifer R. Green / Jennifer RGreen
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    36,82 €

  • Advances in Group Processes
    Publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. This title examines topics such as: graded status characteristics and expectation states; standardizing open interaction coding for status processes; creating community through language among San Pedro Longshoremen; and, more. ...
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    257,35 €

  • Societal Peace and Ideal Citizenship for Turkey
    Pinar Enneli / Rasim Dsnmez / Rasim Osgur Donmez / Rasim Özgür Dönmez
    This book aims to understand the ways and means for ensuring societal peace by evaluating problems about citizenship in the Turkish regime. It also offers the ideal citizenship regime for Turkey in relation to various issues, such as the environment, gender, youth, and poverty. ...
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    166,13 €

  • Social Things
    Charles Lemert
    Social Things introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world, and many additions that bring the history of sociology up to date. ...
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    55,68 €

  • The Birth of Capitalism
    Henry Heller
    In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.Focusing on arguments about the origin, nature and sustainability of capitalism, Heller offers a new reading of the historical evidence and a critical interrogat...
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    47,09 €

  • Revolt!
    John Asimakopoulos
    Championing counter ideology, societal education, and direct action professor Asimakopoulos develops a theory to action model for working class movement building toward societies based on self-organization and self-direction. Revolt! begins with an analysis of the 2008 economic collapse showing how neoliberal globalization is intensifying capitalism’s contradictions resulting i...
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    56,13 €

  • Inside the College Gates
    Jenny M. Stuber / Jenny MStuber / Jenny Stuber
    This book is intended to bring greater nuance to the study of inequality and higher education. Rather than focusing on human capital and students’ experiences inside the classroom, the author highlights the ways in which the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a setting in which social class inequalities manif...
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    132,04 €

  • Working With High Risk Youth
    Alex A.G. Taub / Alex A.GTaub / Alex AGTaub
    This book provides insights for students into future work environments and the mental tools needed to adapt their personalities to future work realities. This work was reviewed by numerous youths and professionals, an approach that allows past clients to have a voice in how future professionals will approach them. ...
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    50,49 €

  • Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy
    Sabina E. Vaught / Sabina EVaught
    Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U.S. schools. ...
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    47,13 €

  • From Bourgeois to Boojie
    Vershawn Ashanti Young
    In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances, editor Vershawn Ashanti Young and assistant editor Bridget Harris Tsemo collect a diverse assortment of pieces that examine the generational shift in the perception of the black middle class, from the serious moniker of 'bourgeois' to the more playful, sardonic 'boojie.' Including such senior cultural workers as Amir...
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    39,06 €


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