Showing titles in Social Classes & Economic Disparity

Music Hall and Modernity offers a complex view of the new middle-class, middle-brow, mass culture of late-Victorian London and contributes to a body of scholarship on 19th-century urbanism. The book will also interest scholars concerned with the emergence of a professional managerial class and the genealogy of cultural studies.

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that...

American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or street festival the same way again. Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working behind the scenes with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last king of the sideshows.

Many Americans, holding fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social class doesn't matter. Yet the ways we talk and dress, our interactions with authority figures, the degree of trust we place in strangers, our religious beliefs, our achievements, our senses of morality and of ourselves all are marked by social class, a powerful factor affecting every domain of life.

Die Politik der Angst? Ob in Politik, Wirtschaft oder Privatleben: Das Coronavirus gibt den Takt vor. Tausende Unternehmen steuern auf den Konkurs zu, kaum für möglich gehaltene Einschränkungen der Bürgerrechte werden ohne Diskussionen beschlossen - auf unbestimmte Zeit. Viele Menschen...

Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But...

From the bestselling author of Palo Alto, a kaleidoscopic and thought-provoking history of how America came to pursue convenience—the feeling of getting what you want, when you want it—at all costs, to the detriment of our health, happiness, and even our efficiency. We are drowning in...

Did you know that over 600 million people live on less than $2 a day? Nearly 10 percent of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time. Eradicating extreme poverty may seem simple, but it's very complex.

In the 1960s and '70s, class struggle surged in US industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in different factories during this period, and this memoir came from his experiences as an electrician in the blast furnace division of US Steel Gary Works. His firsthand account reveals the day-to-day workings of white supremacy, patriarchy, and the exploitation of labor. More so, though, we see the seeds of a new society sown in the workers’ on-the-job resistance.

This important book “weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative” (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and nutritional disparities in America, illuminating exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate. Inequality...

In Fables of Fortune, author Richard Watts pulls back the brocade curtain to reveal the precarious path of wanting more. As an advisor to the super-rich, Watts reflects on the reality of wealth and a difficult and heartbreaking lesson: "The wealthiest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least." Through vignettes based on true stories, Fables of Fortune reveals the challenges the super-wealthy face, including marriages based on net worth, interfamily inheritance battles, faux friends, entitled children, alienation, and spiritual depletion.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Unintended Consequences comes another bold and contrarian book by the man who famously defended capitalism and the one percent at the height of the Occupy movement. Conventional wisdom says income inequality is rising and harmful to nearly everyone...

A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released...

An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth...

真正的历史转折点往往不在总统府的谈判桌上，而隐藏在无数农民、工人和移民对抗系统性不平等的社会阶层博弈里。当你厌倦了宏大叙事与王侯将相的赞歌，渴望在纷繁复杂的现代社会中找到个体命运的坐标时，这部自下而...

在资本狂飙突进的历史十字路口，前所未有的国家暴富与深不见底的阶层撕裂竟然遵循着同一套残酷的经济逻辑。当你深陷当下的财富焦虑，试图理解为何经济不断扩张却依然难以跨越阶层壁垒时，这部节奏明快的社会经济史...

يروي هذا التاريخ الاقتصادي قصة صعود أمريكا الصناعية، حيث رافق تراكم الثروات الهائل فقر مدقع وصراعات طبقية مريرة. وسط هدير السكك الحديدية ودخان المصانع، تبرز...

A expansão econômica e a desigualdade social extrema cresceram juntas como motores da mesma máquina histórica americana. Ideal para acompanhar seu deslocamento diário, esta narrativa imersiva revela o verdadeiro custo do progresso acelerado após a Guerra Civil. É uma jornada reflexiva por...

L'inarrestabile ascesa del capitalismo americano ha forgiato una superpotenza, innescando una disuguaglianza storica. Ideale per chi cerca una narrazione analitica durante il tragitto quotidiano, questo saggio illumina le dinamiche nascoste del boom industriale. Un ascolto profondo che trasforma...

Desentraña la desigualdad económica actual y comprende por qué la riqueza se concentra velozmente en muy pocas manos. Ya sea que busques claridad mientras escuchas en tu trayecto diario o necesites respuestas frente a un panorama financiero abrumador, este análisis reflexivo te ofrece un...