Social mobility books

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Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth

Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility...

Author: Professor Selina Todd
ISBN: 9781784703479
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Politicians claim social mobility is real – a just reward for ambition and hard work.  Read More >>

Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform

Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of...

Author: Albert Pionke
ISBN: 9781399507707
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the...  Read More >>

Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories,...

Author: Deborah Reed-Danahay
ISBN: 9781800736412
Format: Paperback
$61.97

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received...  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: 9780008529581
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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

Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What

Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who...

Author: Corey Rosen ,  John Case
ISBN: 9781523000821
Format: Paperback
$55.00

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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending...

Author: Joanne Samuel Goldblum ,  Colleen Shaddox
ISBN: 9781637743454
Format: Paperback
$39.99

FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST — POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES. NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE &...  Read More >>

Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings

Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings...

Author: Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa ,  Kelvin Low
ISBN: 9789004511088
Format: Hardback
$332.64

This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in...  Read More >>

Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860

Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy,...

Author: Jim Handy
ISBN: 9781487563530
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Apostles of Inequality explores how changes to land use and ideas about political economy in late-eighteenth and...  Read More >>

Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know ®

Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know...

Author: Laura M. Argys (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado) ,  Susan L. Averett (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Lafayette College)
ISBN: 9780190093389
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know ® provides an essential and accessible introduction to the...  Read More >>

Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail

Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail

Author: Michael L. Walker (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780190072865
Format: Hardback
$58.95

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies...  Read More >>

Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility

Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and...

Author: Petter Dyndahl ,  Sidsel Karlsen
ISBN: 9780367535599
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of sociocultural inclusion and...  Read More >>

Social Inequality

Social Inequality

Author: Louise Warwick-Booth
ISBN: 9781529768510
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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Social Inequality

Social Inequality

Author: Louise Warwick-Booth
ISBN: 9781529768527
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students-and Universities

A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing...

Author: Phillip B. Levine
ISBN: 9780226818559
Format: Paperback
$41.95

A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing—how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can...  Read More >>

A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students-and Universities

A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing...

Author: Phillip B. Levine
ISBN: 9780226818535
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing—how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can...  Read More >>

On Inequality and Freedom

On Inequality and Freedom

Author: Lawrence M. Eppard (PhD, PhD, Shippensburg University) ,  Henry A. Giroux (PhD, PhD, McMaster University)
ISBN: 9780197583029
Format: Hardback
$67.25

When Americans conceptualize freedom, they often disproportionately focus on negative freedom, or freedom from government...  Read More >>

Beauty in Architecture: Harmony of Place

Beauty in Architecture: Harmony of Place

Author: Bogusław Paź ,  Bogusław Szuba
ISBN: 9783631859261
Format: Hardback
$128.60

The harmony of a place is a state of the dynamic balance of mutual local interactions of the natural, socio-cultural,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’

Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class...

Author: Shanthi Robertson (Western Sydney University, Australia) ,  Rosie Roberts (University of South Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367535001
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class or ‘middling’ migrant groups across the globe,...  Read More >>

Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil: Contemporary Transformations

Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil: Contemporary...

Author: Doreen Joy Gordon
ISBN: 9783030907648
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization...  Read More >>

Why You Won’t Get Rich: And Why You Deserve Better Than This

Why You Won’t Get Rich: And Why You Deserve Better Than...

Author: Robert Verkaik
ISBN: 9780861542253
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Stories of economic shame in Britain and a hopeful way forward for capitalism   Read More >>

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities...

Author: Monika Büscher ,  Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
ISBN: 9781803922522
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Exploring the growing field of mobilities research, this Handbook focuses on the flows and movements of people,...  Read More >>

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