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Educational Failure and Working Class White : Children in Britain
Gillian Evans
Hardcover - $168.95
Contrasting what is required of children at school with what is expected of them at home and on the street, Gillian Evans provides an ethnographic analysis of educational failure in white working class neighbourhoods. The reasons for individual child ...
Pathologies of Power : Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Paul Farmer
Paperback - $30.95
"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. "Pathologies of Power is an eloquent plea for a working definition of human rights that would not neglect the most basic rights of a ...
The Great Middle-Class Revolution : Our Long March Toward a Professionalized Society
Melvyn L. Fein
Paperback - $41.95
Boundaries and Categories : Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China
Wang Feng
Hardcover - $117.95
Falling Behind : How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Robert H. Frank
Paperback - $41.95
Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the ...
Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
Dennis Gilbert
Hardcover - $75.95
Mexicos modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. Though little studied, the middle class now accounts for one in five Mexican households. This path-breaking book explore ...
The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality
Dennis Gilbert
Paperback - $118.95
"The American Class Structure in an age of growing inequality "is a current, concise treatment of America's ever-changing class structure. Author Dennis Gilbert asks a deceivingly simple question: Why is social inequality in America increasing? This ...
Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain
John H. Goldthorpe
Paperback - $208.95
The second edition of this classic study, fully updated and extended, now includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and views of social mobility in modern Britain from a cross-national perspecti ...