The book deals with social transformations brought about by industrialization in and around the steel town of Bhilai in ......more

Based on research work financed by the European Commission under their programme of Community Action to Combat Social Ex......more

The social model of disability, which uses the impairment/disability binary to focus attention on removing disability, h......more

A pipe bomb in Seattle . . . An armored car hijacking in California . . . The high-stepping stomp of slam-dancing skinhe......more

Born in 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner was one of millions of enslaved persons of African descent in t......more

This book explores how central and suburban cities in the United States have been continually built, shaped, and reshape......more

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of "sunny Italy" with the radio liste......more

In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions – first women’s suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred K......more

A critique and excavation of sexual confession as the key ritual of twenty-first-century moving image culture, from the ......more

"What Broke really tells us is how systems of government, law and finance can crush even the hardiest of boot-strap pull......more

Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injustice Political equality is the most basic tenet of dem......more

How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies’ first legal institutions, and w......more

The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts – the texts, performances, and discussions selected ......more

An examination of the legacy and cultural afterlife of the Canadian 1970s in film, television, and the visual arts....more

An examination of the legacy and cultural afterlife of the Canadian 1970s in film, television, and the visual arts....more

What happens when high-powered women, having spent a decade at home to raise children, attempt to rejoin the workforce? ......more

Monique Villa shows us the world of slaves—no longer physically in chains—who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of explo......more

How pleasure, inversion, and story characterize five decades of connections between the United Church of Canada, Jean Va......more

The seminal document of Third Camp Socialism, available again after decades out of print....more

White Bred, with sharp arguments, backed-up by groundbreaking research, masterully demonstrates how and why white-suprem......more

In this collection of essays, the authors challenge recent misbegotten egalitarian ideas, exposing the quicksand on whic......more

From the Peripheryconsists of more than thirty first-person narratives of everyday people who describe what it’s like to......more

This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United ......more

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to ......more

The true stories of the Underground Railroad captured in real time by a legendary abolitionist and Underground Railroad ......more

Rather than view social inequality as a problem for marginalized populations, Power and Everyday Practices turns the spo......more

Politics of Empowerment explores why seemingly firmly entrenched policies, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, ......more

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap......more

How complex connections involved in memorializing slavery create events that wed the past to the present...more

A wide-ranging exploration of how contemporary narratives contribute to debates on class and economics...more

The best-selling author ofHow Children Succeedreturns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher e......more

This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of e......more

This is the story of the one question about global poverty we never thought to ask: who owns it? It’s a question with an......more

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A prize-winning, breakout bestseller, with famous fans including J. K. Rowling, Irvine Welsh and Ken Loach. This powerfu......more

Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending ......more

The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result,......more

“Original and revelatory.” —David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award Finalist A Civil War Memory......more

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary......more

Grieving for London presents an unprecedented portrait of contemporary life among the working class in the Bethnal Green......more

Though the internet offers benefits such as connectivity, easily available knowledge, and diverse entertainment, digital......more

Hantrais finds a number of recurring and interlocking themes that are most relevant to understanding why the United King......more

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the ......more

Struggling in the Land of Plenty examines how gendered and racialized poverty, social structural inequality, intimate pa......more

A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher educatio......more

Disturbed by the diminishing standards to which his fellow Evangelicals hold their leaders, conservative columnist Ben H......more

It can be easy to overlook the poor and homeless. But truly seeing leads us to act with compassion and justice. Sharing ......more

Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity,is an anthology of readings that explor......more

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of......more

This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression ......more

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one’s children a better life tha......more

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherer......more

This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in......more

Atpublicationdate, a free ebook version of this title will be available throughLuminos, University of California Press’s......more

José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930) is widely recognized across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative......more

This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the wo......more

First published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is considered the seminal work on political economy. Its author, Adam Smi......more

Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with ......more

Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with ......more

The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of a college-educated young professional who finds work in the automated and time-......more

A new engagement with the tangled, fraught antebellum debate surrounding black resettlement...more

Poverty reduction is once more at the top of the agenda in international development with new targets to reduce absolute......more

Poverty reduction is once more at the top of the agenda in international development with new targets to reduce absolute......more

What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and resources are scarce? In ......more

Winner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls “a powerful investi......more

David Brion Davis’s books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on t......more

Born to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an au......more

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James Bloodworth tackles the thorny issue of class, privilege and wealth in contemporary Britain, taking to task the maj......more

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive co......more

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Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history. Yet until no......more

How the CBC recast Canadian history for television and influenced what we know and how we think about the Canadian past....more