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  • Limbo

    Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

    de Alfred Lubrano ...
    In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

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  • The Son Also Rises

    Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

    de Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Yu Hao, Daniel Diaz Vidal ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Pinched

    How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It

    de Don Peck ...
    The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly. But history shows us that, ultimately, shocks this severe profoundly alter the character ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

    My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

    de Jane Mcalevey, Bob Ostertag ...
    See how one militant union organizer fought the bosses—and national labor leaders—in this “breathtaking trip through the union-organizing scene” (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed).“ . . . renews my faith that organizing works . . . makes a compelling case for a new vision for the American labor movement.” —Van JonesIn 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • An Irish Navvy – The Diary of an Exile

    de Donall MacAmhlaigh ...
    DIrish construction workers in post-war Britain are celebrated in song and story. Donall MacAmhlaigh kept a diary as he worked the sites, danced in the Irish halls, drank in Irish pubs and lived the life of the roving Irish navvy. Work was hard, dirty and dangerous, followed by pints in the Admiral Rodney, the Shamrock, the Cattle Market Tavern and others. Living conditions were basic at best. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Outlaws of the Atlantic

    Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail

    de Marcus Rediker ...
    This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship.In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Class and Race Formation in North America

    de James W. Russell ...
    On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into subordinate positions. As a result of the conquest, race has become an enduring issue in the class ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Natural History of the Rich

    A Field Guide

    de Richard Conniff ...
    A tantalizing, droll study of the idiosyncratic existence of the very rich, through the unexpected lens of the naturalist.Journalist Richard Conniff probes the age-old question "Are the rich different from you and me?" and finds that they are indeed a completely different animal. He observes with great humor this socially unique species, revealing their strategies for ensuring dominance and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Masters of Craft

    Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy

    de Richard E. Ocejo ...
    How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy—in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hollowing Out the Middle

    The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

    de Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas ...
    Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communitiesIn 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Dispatches Against Displacement

    Field Notes from San Franciscos Housing Wars

    de James Tracy ...
    San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement over almost two decades of "dot com" boom and bust, offering the necessary perspective to analyze the latest ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?

    State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism

    de Goran Therborn ...
    The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis – input mechanisms, processes ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD