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  • Sorting Letters, Sorting Lives
    Linda B Benbow / Linda B. Benbow / Linda BBenbow / Linda Benbow
    Linda Benbow examines the organizational culture and various levels of diversity found in an urban United States Postal Service mail processing facility. She shows how employee perceptions of social differences and their interactions with coworkers contributes to their identity and work life within the organization. Painting detailed portraits of race, social class, and gender ...
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    148,43 €

  • The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
    Friedrich Engels / Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky
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    42,96 €

  • Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa
    Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the interface between human rights and civil society, the media, gender, education, religion, health communication, and political processes, weaving theory, history, policy, and case analyses into a holistic intellectual and cultural critique while offering practical so...
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    69,39 €

  • The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria
    Mohammad Ahmad Wali
    In The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria, author Mohammad Ahmad Wali examines the implementation of public policy in Nigeria with an emphasis on Sokoto State from 1976 to 1991, from the perspective of an insider.Thoroughly documented and researched, The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria first dissects the explanations provided for both the success and fail...
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    34,49 €

  • The Millionaire Next Door
    Thomas J. Ph.D. Stanley / Thomas J. Stanley / Thomas JPh.DStanley / Thomas Stanley / William D. Danko / William D. Ph.D Danko / William Danko / William DPh.D Danko
    The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley. ...
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    16,23 €

  • The Socio-Economic Benefit of Home Ownership in Low and Moderate Income Communities
    Thomas P. FitzGibbon / Thomas PFitzGibbon
    The United States government spends billions of dollars on home ownership programs in low and moderate income communities. However, there is paucity of academic research to assess the socioeconomic impacts of these programs. The purpose of this empirical research was to assess their possible impacts. The key research question explored the relationship between low and moderate i...
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    35,61 €

  • The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class
    William K. Carroll
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    32,79 €

  • Rich, Free, and Miserable
    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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    71,02 €

  • The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria
    Mohammad Ahmad Wali
    In The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria, author Mohammad Ahmad Wali examines the implementation of public policy in Nigeria with an emphasis on Sokoto State from 1976 to 1991, from the perspective of an insider.Thoroughly documented and researched, The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria first dissects the explanations provided for both the success and fail...
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    23,24 €

  • Social Status and Cultural Consumption
    Tak Wing Chan
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    136,27 €

  • 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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    184,27 €

  • The State and Life Chances in Urban China
    Xueguang Zhou
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    68,50 €

  • Reproducing Class
    Erol M. Balkan / Erol MBalkan / Henry J. Rutz / Henry JRutz
    '...a fresh and an important contribution ...this book presents an ethnographically rich and conceptually strong account of recent transformations in the educational field and their implications for class relations in Turkey.' · Middle East JournalMiddle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and ...
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    38,45 €

  • The Burden of Academic Success
    Allison Hurst / Allison L Hurst / Allison L. Hurst / Allison LHurst
    The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores working-class college students’ understandings of class and social mobility through in-depth interviews rich in ethnographic detail. This book is a compelling read for students and a much-needed addition to our understanding of how class operates today, both inside and outside of the classroom. ...
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    164,72 €

  • El futuro de la clase en la Historia
    Geoff Eley / Keith Nield / Mónica Burguera
    La unificación de los conceptos resulta esencial a la hora de estudiar la historia. Proporciona a los estudiantes y académicos formas de organizar sus pensamientos, su investigación y sus escritos. No obstante, estos conceptos también son el centro de miles de conflictos en este campo. La historia social se ha visto implicada, desde sus inicios hace ya más de cuarenta años, en ...
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    20,00 €

  • Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures
    Joel Franks / Joel Stephen Franks
    This updated edition explores the vibrant community of Asian Pacific Americans through sports. This book tells intriguing tales of athletes, such as aquatic legend Duke Kahanamoku and diving gold medalist Vicki Manalo, but has been expanded to include Tiger Woods, Tim Lincicum, Troy Polamalu and other current athletes. ...
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    73,41 €

  • Stepping Stones
    Alice Lynd / Staughton Lynd
    Young people are rediscovering a vision that ’another world is possible’ and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean to devote a lifetime to these ideals. ...
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    64,21 €

  • Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1940
    Brad Beaven
    From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyle...
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    31,90 €

  • The Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn
    Judith DeSena / Judith NDeSena
    In this book, Desena examines the ways that working class residents and incoming gentrifiers form parallel cultures within the shared physical spaces of their community. Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn touches on issues familiar to anyone who has lived in a multi-class or multi-ethnic community, while offering new perspectives on the ways that such communities develop...
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    117,19 €

  • Facts and Fascism
    George Seldes
    'This book names the most powerful forces in Europe which organized the Fascist and Nazi parties and movement, the powerful American forces which own, control and subsidize native Fascism, and the spokesmen, radio orators, writers and other agents of reaction in America.'Facts and Fascism is the definitive account and source book on Fascism in the United States after the First ...
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    14,79 €

  • America at Risk
    Carolyn C Perrucci / Carolyn C. Perrucci / Carolyn CPerrucci / Robert Perrucci
    In America at Risk, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality. Taking data from a thirty-year period, Perrucci and Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant economic, political, and cultural ins...
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    139,09 €

  • America at Risk
    Carolyn C Perrucci / Carolyn C. Perrucci / Carolyn CPerrucci / Robert Perrucci
    In America at Risk, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality. Taking data from a thirty-year period, Perrucci and Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant economic, political, and cultural ins...
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    51,78 €

  • The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
    Friedrich Engels / Florence K. Wischnewetzky / Florence KWischnewetzky
    From 1842 to 1844, German philosopher FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820-1895) lived in Manchester, England, and witnessed firsthand the impact of the nation’s burgeoning Industrial Revolution on the poor. In this classic treatise, Engels documents, in what is today his best-known work, the terrible working conditions, rampant disease, overcrowded housing, child labor, and other horrors of...
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    27,46 €

  • Altruism and Prosocial Behavior in Groups
    Edward J. Lawler / Shane R. Thye
    Addresses a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion. This book contains topics that include how empathy induced altruism can actually be a threat to the some larger collective good, and the role of egoism in the production and maintenance of social order. ...
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    227,19 €

  • The Failure of Global Capitalism
    Garry Leech / Terry Gibbs
    What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton's industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province's utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal-from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unio...
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    20,44 €

  • Signs of Race in Poststructuralism
    Robert Young
    This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct? ...
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    108,64 €

  • Land of the Olympians
    Robert Corfe
    This is a penetrating study of many aspects of life, thought, and everyday existence in Scandinavia, as experienced through the author’s 9-year residence in the enlightened far north in the 1960s. Robert Corfe is primarily known as a thought-provoking writer of books published in the 21st century, but this work comprises a selection of his articles published in the Finnish pres...
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    29,06 €

  • Stepping Stones
    Alice Lynd / Staughton Lynd
    Young people are rediscovering a vision that ’another world is possible’ and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean to devote a lifetime to these ideals. ...
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    132,04 €

  • The Economics of Unemployment
    John Atkinson Hobson
    John Atkinson Hobson (1858 – 1940) was an English social scientist and economist most famous for his work on imperialism—which notably had an influence on Vladimir Lenin—as well as his theory of underconsumption. His early work also questioned the classical theory of rent and predicted the Neoclassical 'marginal productivity' theory of distribution. In his 1922 essay “The Econo...
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    37,39 €

  • Reproducing Class
    Erol M. Balkan / Erol MBalkan / Henry J. Rutz / Henry JRutz
    '...a fresh and an important contribution ...this book presents an ethnographically rich and conceptually strong account of recent transformations in the educational field and their implications for class relations in Turkey.' · Middle East Journal'...the book critically draws attention to a number of key issues that are often taken for granted in the literature on neoliberal...
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    184,70 €


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