Social mobility books

557 books were found.

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave...

Author: Katriona O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780241996768
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people...  Read More >>

Climbing up the Social Ladder?: Social Mobility of Elites in East-Central Europe in the Long 19th Century

Climbing up the Social Ladder?: Social Mobility of Elites...

Author: Vlad Popovici ,  Alice Velková
ISBN: 9783110749014
Format: Hardback
$250.77

Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position....  Read More >>

The State of Us: The good news and the bad news about our society

The State of Us: The good news and the bad news about...

Author: Jon Snow
ISBN: 9781529176063
Format: Paperback
$27.99

After four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow finally gives vent to his opinions on the state...  Read More >>

Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility

Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social...

Author: Melissa Osborne
ISBN: 9780226833040
Format: Paperback
$36.95

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Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility

Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social...

Author: Melissa Osborne
ISBN: 9780226833026
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students....  Read More >>

Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North

Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten...

Author: Pip Fallow
ISBN: 9781529051155
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Pip Fallow left school illiterate, prepared only for a life down the mines. This is his story of working class life...  Read More >>

The Trading Game: A Confession

The Trading Game: A Confession

Author: Gary Stevenson
ISBN: 9780241688274
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you...  Read More >>

The Trading Game: A Confession

The Trading Game: A Confession

Author: Gary Stevenson
ISBN: 9780241636602
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you...  Read More >>

The Making of a Left-Behind Class: Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation

The Making of a Left-Behind Class: Educational Stratification,...

Author: Fred Powell (University College Cork) ,  Margaret Scanlon (University College Cork)
ISBN: 9781447367949
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating...  Read More >>

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon...

Author: Nathaniel Robert Walker (Associate Professor of Architectural History, Associate Professor of Architectural History, The Catholic University of America)
ISBN: 9780198907756
Format: Paperback
$82.95

A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural,...  Read More >>

Smouldering Charcoal

Smouldering Charcoal

Author: Tiyambe Zeleza
ISBN: 9781035900985
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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The Crisis-Mobility Nexus

The Crisis-Mobility Nexus

Author: Leandros Fischer
ISBN: 9783031446702
Format: Hardback
$90.54

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The African American Entrepreneur: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trump Era

The African American Entrepreneur: Challenges and Opportunities...

Author: W. Sherman Rogers
ISBN: 9798765118436
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This second edition provides both a history of black entrepreneurship in America throughout all periods of American...  Read More >>

Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality

Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness,...

Author: Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) ,  Jonas Pontusson (Université de Genève)
ISBN: 9781009428644
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Offers an introduction to the latest research on political inequality and its relationship to economic inequalities...  Read More >>

The Price Of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong - And How to Fix It

The Price Of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong -...

Author: Amy Schiller
ISBN: 9781685890223
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A journalist, academic and consultant evaluates the history of philanthropy, from the ideas of St. Augustine to...  Read More >>

Shifting Mobility: Part 1: Transforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code

Shifting Mobility: Part 1: Transforming Planning and...

Author: Dewan Masud Karim
ISBN: 9780367254353
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The book provides a scientific perspective to urban mobility and introduces multimodal mobility planning with a...  Read More >>

Urban China

Urban China

Author: Xuefei Ren ,  Kirill Batygin
ISBN: 9798887194509
Format: Hardback
$54.99

"ENG: ""Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented...  Read More >>

Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy

Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility...

Author: Jeffrey A. Easton
ISBN: 9789004686342
Format: Hardback
$393.36

This book uses the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by the municipal freedmen and freedwomen of communities...  Read More >>

The Ideas-Informed Society: Why We Need It and How to Make It Happen

The Ideas-Informed Society: Why We Need It and How to...

Author: Chris Brown (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Graham Handscomb (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781837530137
Format: Paperback
$62.10

Presenting concepts from academia, industry, and practice, The Ideas-Informed Society closes the gap between the...  Read More >>

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story...

Author: Esau McCaulley
ISBN: 9780593241080
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting...  Read More >>

Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About it

Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do...

Author: Rory Hearne
ISBN: 9780008529611
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The book that has been waiting to be written – how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out...  Read More >>

The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives

The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate...

Author: Nicola Ingram (Manchester Metropolitan University) ,  Ann-Marie Bathmaker (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781529208856
Format: Paperback
$34.99

This book traces the transition to the graduate labour market of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young...  Read More >>

Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India: Beyond One Generation Into the Future

Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India: Beyond...

Author: Nawazuddin Ahmed (Symbiosis International, Pune, India) ,  D.K. Nauriyal (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)
ISBN: 9781032421247
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics...  Read More >>

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