Social mobility books

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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 >>

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: 9781529208849
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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

Caste as Social Capital: The Complex Place of Caste in Indian Society

Caste as Social Capital: The Complex Place of Caste...

Author: R. Prof. Vaidyanathan
ISBN: 9780143459491
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Caste as Social Capital examines the workings of caste through the lens of business, economics and entrepreneurship....  Read More >>

Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities

Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places...

Author: Rory Coulter (Department of Geography, University College London.)
ISBN: 9781447357674
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across...  Read More >>

Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities

Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places...

Author: Rory Coulter (Department of Geography, University College London.)
ISBN: 9781447357667
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across...  Read More >>

Social Mobility, Social Inequality, and the Role of Higher Education

Social Mobility, Social Inequality, and the Role of...

Author: Elena G. Popkova ,  Bruno S. Sergi
ISBN: 9789004539983
Format: Hardback
$517.44

The book explains the role of higher education in increasing social mobility at the deepest думу of social institutions...  Read More >>

Breaking the Cycle of Women's Paid Domestic Work in Brazil: A Study of Mothers and Daughters

Breaking the Cycle of Women's Paid Domestic Work in...

Author: Anna Maria Del Fiorentino
ISBN: 9781527502000
Format: Hardback
$168.16

Widening access to higher education has been a political issue in Brazil for a long time, but only in the early...  Read More >>

Waste(d) Collectors – Politics of Urban Exclusion in Mumbai

Waste(d) Collectors – Politics of Urban Exclusion in...

Author: Sneha Sharma
ISBN: 9783837658248
Format: Paperback
$157.95

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Land, Promise, and Peril: Race and Stratification in the Rural South

Land, Promise, and Peril: Race and Stratification in...

Author: Mary D. Coleman (Economic Mobility Pathways)
ISBN: 9781009182560
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A unique study of the interplay between race and local power dynamics in the American South which connects family...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times

The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects...

Author: Scott Timcke (University of the West Indies at St Augustine)
ISBN: 9781529221756
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Bringing together philosophical insights with social theory, this book develops a better understanding of the role...  Read More >>

Children, Family and the State: A Critical Introduction

Children, Family and the State: A Critical Introduction...

Author: Rob Creasy (York St John University, England) ,  Fiona Corby (Teesside University, England)
ISBN: 9781447368953
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This book gives students a critical insight into how children and families' everyday lives and experiences are shaped...  Read More >>

Children, Family and the State: A Critical Introduction

Children, Family and the State: A Critical Introduction...

Author: Rob Creasy (York St John University, England) ,  Fiona Corby (Teesside University, England)
ISBN: 9781447368946
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book gives students a critical insight into how children and families' everyday lives and experiences are shaped...  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: 9781529050851
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil: Contemporary Transformations

Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil: Contemporary...

Author: Doreen Joy Gordon
ISBN: 9783030907679
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization...  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: 9781787635708
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Jon Snow, national treasure and the last of the 'big beasts' of TV news, finally gives vent to his feelings on the...  Read More >>

Social Inequalities

Social Inequalities

Author: Anya Ahmed ,  Deirdre Duffy
ISBN: 9781529772166
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Social Inequalities

Social Inequalities

Author: Anya Ahmed ,  Deirdre Duffy
ISBN: 9781529772159
Format: Hardback
$230.29

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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the...

Author: Adrian Wooldridge
ISBN: 9780141990378
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A fascinating and important history of meritocracy, and a Times book of the year Meritocracy- the idea that people...  Read More >>

Right from Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption

Right from Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption

Author: Jacob Dunne ,  Mark Eglinton
ISBN: 9780008472146
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Now a major new stage work 'Punch' by James Graham, Sat 4 – Sat 25 May 2024 Nottingham Playhouse ★★★★★...  Read More >>

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

Author: Tom Fletcher
ISBN: 9780008447915
Format: Paperback
$22.99

‘Original and thought provoking’ Gordon Brown ‘Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the...  Read More >>

Precise Poverty Alleviation and Intergenerational Mobility in China

Precise Poverty Alleviation and Intergenerational Mobility...

Author: Chunjin Chen ,  Daoyang Chong
ISBN: 9781032421209
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The widening of income and wealth inequality has become one of the most important obstacles on the road to China’s...  Read More >>

Mobility and Inequality Trends

Mobility and Inequality Trends

Author: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Queen Mary University of London, UK) ,  Juan Gabriel Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
ISBN: 9781803829029
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Mobility and Inequality Trends is the 30th volume of Research on Economic Inequality and features insightful and...  Read More >>

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Author: Harry Crews ,  Tobias Wolff
ISBN: 9780143135333
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"""First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row Publishers, 1978. Published with a foreword by...  Read More >>

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