Social mobility books

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Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China: The Case of Rural Urbanisation

Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China: The Case...

Author: Jia Gao ,  Yuanyuan Su
ISBN: 9781786432582
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out

The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out

Author: Jaime Kucinskas (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hamilton College)
ISBN: 9780190881818
Format: Hardback
$67.95

The Mindful Elite delves into the elite foundation of the mindfulness movement, showing how its leaders' choices...  Read More >>

The Rise of the Medical Profession: A Study of Collective Social Mobility

The Rise of the Medical Profession: A Study of Collective...

Author: Noel Parry ,  José Parry
ISBN: 9780367001759
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Originally published in 1976 The Rise of the Medical Profession combines a sociological and historical approach...  Read More >>

Turbulence, Empowerment and Marginalisation in International Education Governance Systems

Turbulence, Empowerment and Marginalisation in International...

Author: Alison Taysum (University of Leicester, UK) ,  Khalid Arar (Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Israel)
ISBN: 9781787546769
Format: Hardback
$134.00

This book presents a new theory of empowerment, exploring how senior leaders can navigate turbulence within governance...  Read More >>

Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities

Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality...

Author: Jessica Trounstine
ISBN: 9781108454988
Format: Paperback
$56.90

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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities

Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality...

Author: Jessica Trounstine
ISBN: 9781108429955
Format: Hardback
$219.91

The first account of how local governments generate segregation, this book documents changing patterns of segregation,...  Read More >>

Dalits and the Making of Modern India

Dalits and the Making of Modern India

Author: Chinnaiah Jangam (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Carleton University)
ISBN: 9780199477777
Format: Hardback
$67.50

This book inverts the dominant nationalist narrative and shines light on the silenced voices and unacknowledged...  Read More >>

Methodologies of Mobility: Ethnography and Experiment

Methodologies of Mobility: Ethnography and Experiment...

Author: Alice Elliot ,  Roger Norum
ISBN: 9781789200607
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of...  Read More >>

Social Mobility: And Its Enemies

Social Mobility: And Its Enemies

Author: Lee Elliot Major ,  Stephen Machin
ISBN: 9780241317020
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A closer look at how declining social mobility affects us all, and what we can do about it What are the effects...  Read More >>

Inclusive Education in South Africa and the Developing World: The Search for an Inclusive Pedagogy

Inclusive Education in South Africa and the Developing...

Author: Sigamoney Naicker (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781787541306
Format: Paperback
$83.00

This book offers a framework for the implementation of inclusive education in developing countries. It proposes...  Read More >>

Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class

Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the...

Author: Devin Fergus (Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780199970162
Format: Hardback
$50.95

Land of the Fee exposes the barely visible system of fees that pervades everyday life in America, and explores how...  Read More >>

Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation

Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility:...

Author: Ann-Marie Bathmaker ,  Nicola Ingram
ISBN: 9781349710102
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately...  Read More >>

Engaging with Diversity: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Plurality from Quebec

Engaging with Diversity: Multidisciplinary Reflections...

Author: Alain-G. Gagnon ,  Stéphan Gervais
ISBN: 9782807607668
Format: Paperback
$170.90

This updated collection of essays about the experience of living in Quebec written by leading Quebec Studies scholars...  Read More >>

Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate’s Egg?

Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher...

Author: Stuart Billingham (York St John University, UK)
ISBN: 9781787541108
Format: Paperback
$82.00

This collection of essays illuminates the benefits, drawbacks, challenges and opportunities of the push to widen...  Read More >>

Why Socialists Oppose Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Why Socialists Oppose Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Author: SPGB
ISBN: 9781909891159
Format: Paperback
$5.18

Some Jewish organisations, echoed by the media, have been accusing the Labour Party of tolerating antisemitism in...  Read More >>

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's...

Author: Darren McGarvey
ISBN: 9781529006346
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018.  Read More >>

Moving for prosperity: global migration and labor markets

Moving for prosperity: global migration and labor markets...

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9781464812811
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Urban Dynamics: Conflicts, Representations, Appropriations and Policies

Urban Dynamics: Conflicts, Representations, Appropriations...

Author: Anne-Marie Autissier ,  Javier Gómez Montero
ISBN: 9783631747117
Format: Hardback
$167.80

This book contains articles in English, French and Spanish dealing with European and Latin-American public space,...  Read More >>

Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India

Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India

Author: Divya Vaid (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
ISBN: 9780199480142
Format: Hardback
$85.00

This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate...  Read More >>

Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie

Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie

Author: Elisabeth Schimpfössl (Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Aston University)
ISBN: 9780190677763
Format: Hardback
$113.95

"The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular...  Read More >>

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