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Book SynopsisOne of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global capitalism through a radical history of the concept of "the peasant," demonstrating how seemingly fixed hierarchies were in fact produced, legitimized, and challenged within the preeminent agricultural region of South Asia. Navyug Gill uncovers how and why British officials and ascendant Panjabis disrupted existing forms of identity and occupation to generate a new agrarian order in the countryside. The notion of the hereditary caste peasant engaged in timeless cultivation thus emerged, paradoxically, as a result of a dramatic series of conceptual, juridical, and monetary divisions. Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.Trade Review"In creative and challenging ways, Gill leads postcolonial analyses of colonial governmentality into an engagement with the history of capitalism, thereby opening the histories of capitalism and histories beyond the North Atlantic to each other."—Andrew Sartori, New York University"Labors of Division is an outstanding investigation of colonial market governance seen through the pivotal Punjabi peasant, elaborating postcolonial readings of political economy, the historiography of capitalism, and vernacular modernities. Gill compellingly illuminates the transformation of agrarian life-worlds through the workings and inhabitings of economic logics, from processes of caste standardization and hierarchization to the problem of indebtedness."—Ritu Birla, University of Toronto"A luminous contribution to the itineraries of global capitalism! Gill upends agrarian political economy by dislodging the sedimented figure of the "peasant", revealing with rigor and verve how colonial categories of rule petrified amorphous social relations to land in British India, producing a caste-based division of labor and laborers with lasting and pernicious consequences for Panjab's subaltern classes."—Vinay Gidwani, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction In Pursuit of Peasant Histories and Futures in Colonial Panjab 1. A Rule of Benevolence? Revenue, Knowledge, and the Accumulation of Difference 2. Naming the Peasant: Colonial Jurisprudence and the Binding of Identity and Occupation 3. The Logic and Illogic of Debt: Reason and Capitalist Volatility in the New Agrarian Market 4. Horizons of Hierarchy: Caste, Landlessness, and the Limits of Religious Conversion 5. Producing a Theory of Inadequacy: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the Political Economy of Comparison Conclusion: Global History and the Impermanence of Hierarchy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global capitalism through a radical history of the concept of "the peasant," demonstrating how seemingly fixed hierarchies were in fact produced, legitimized, and challenged within the preeminent agricultural region of South Asia. Navyug Gill uncovers how and why British officials and ascendant Panjabis disrupted existing forms of identity and occupation to generate a new agrarian order in the countryside. The notion of the hereditary caste peasant engaged in timeless cultivation thus emerged, paradoxically, as a result of a dramatic series of conceptual, juridical, and monetary divisions. Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.Trade Review"In creative and challenging ways, Gill leads postcolonial analyses of colonial governmentality into an engagement with the history of capitalism, thereby opening the histories of capitalism and histories beyond the North Atlantic to each other."—Andrew Sartori, New York University"Labors of Division is an outstanding investigation of colonial market governance seen through the pivotal Punjabi peasant, elaborating postcolonial readings of political economy, the historiography of capitalism, and vernacular modernities. Gill compellingly illuminates the transformation of agrarian life-worlds through the workings and inhabitings of economic logics, from processes of caste standardization and hierarchization to the problem of indebtedness."—Ritu Birla, University of Toronto"A luminous contribution to the itineraries of global capitalism! Gill upends agrarian political economy by dislodging the sedimented figure of the "peasant", revealing with rigor and verve how colonial categories of rule petrified amorphous social relations to land in British India, producing a caste-based division of labor and laborers with lasting and pernicious consequences for Panjab's subaltern classes."—Vinay Gidwani, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction In Pursuit of Peasant Histories and Futures in Colonial Panjab 1. A Rule of Benevolence? Revenue, Knowledge, and the Accumulation of Difference 2. Naming the Peasant: Colonial Jurisprudence and the Binding of Identity and Occupation 3. The Logic and Illogic of Debt: Reason and Capitalist Volatility in the New Agrarian Market 4. Horizons of Hierarchy: Caste, Landlessness, and the Limits of Religious Conversion 5. Producing a Theory of Inadequacy: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the Political Economy of Comparison Conclusion: Global History and the Impermanence of Hierarchy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality.By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation.Trade Review"Perceptive and chilling"London Review of BooksTable of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: A religious crisis The terminal crisis in Catholicism Religious decline and the rise of xenophobia Catholic France and secular France: 1750-1960 The two Frances and equality From the One God to the single currency François Hollande, the Left, and zombie Catholicism 2005: a missed opportunity in class struggle? Difficult atheism CHAPTER TWO: Charlie Charlie: middle class and zombie Catholics Neo-republicanism 1992-2015: from pro-Europeanism to neo-republicanism The neo-republican reality: the ‘social state’ of the middle classes Charlie is anxious Secularism versus the Left Catholicism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism CHAPTER THREE: When equality fails The difficulties of secular, egalitarian France The anthropology of a capitalism in crisis The Europe of inequality France, the Germans and the Arabs Germany and circumcision The great pro-European happening of 11 January 2015 Russia: an exceptional case The mystery of Paris The memory of places The four stages of the crisis CHAPTER FOUR: The French of the Far Right The slow march of the National Front towards la France central A perversion of universalism Republican anti-Semitism Le Pen, Sarkozy and equality The Socialist Party and inequality: the concept of objective xenophobia Mélenchon and inequality The insignificance of human beings and the violence of ideologies CHAPTER FIVE: The French Muslims The disintegration of North African cultures Mixed marriages: Jews and Muslims Ideologues and exogamy The crushing of young people and the jihad factory Scottish fundamentalism Moving beyond the fear of religion Islam and equality The inequality of the sexes The anti-Semitism of the suburbs CONCLUSION The real republican past The neo-republican present Future 1: Confrontation Future 2: the return to the Republic: an accommodation with Islam A foreseeable deterioration The secret weapon of the republican revival

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Book SynopsisBringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people’s lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out in relation to education, health, poverty, neighbourhood and housing and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with figures and concrete examples showing the distribution of life chances across social groups, the book demonstrates how people’s lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions. Comprehensive topical chapters are framed by an exploration of the meaning and interpretation of inequalities and a discussion highlighting the important intersections between them. With new chapters on disability and international migration, this updated edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike.Trade Review‘Platt’s brilliant razor-sharp forensic analysis not only reveals the shocking disparities between rich and poor but uniquely shows how social class and the inequalities of ethnicity, gender, migration and disability intersect and affect people’s intimate and lived lives.’Heidi Mirza, Emeritus Professor, UCL Institute of Education ‘With inequality now at the forefront of political debate, this outstanding book provides a clear, comprehensive and nuanced overview of what is known about the extent and nature of inequalities on key dimensions and the linkages across them.’Brian Nolan, University of OxfordTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Part 1 Chapter 2: Class Chapter 3: Gender Chapter 4: Ethnicity Chapter 5: International migration Chapter 6: Disability Part 2 Chapter 7: Youth and age Chapter 8: Education Chapter 9: Income, wealth and poverty Chapter 10: Health Chapter 11: Housing and geography Chapter 12: Conclusions: Inequality, Intersectionality and Diversity

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Book SynopsisThe concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the new and shiny face of racism? In the time of Black Lives Matter, the unswerving dehumanization and killing of Black people form the bedrock of our civilization. But a vast anti-Black collective feeling also manifests itself as a more insidious shared unconscious, hidden from view by the doctrines we deem as emancipatory. This book challenges the simplistic and pacifying aspects of current African American thought. It puts forward alternatives to intersectionality, poststructuralism, and radical democracy, which are often prioritized in the Black analysis of race, gender, and class. Accessible, historically informed, and politically alert, this book offers a critical analysis of the groundbreaking theories and strategies that radically reimagine the future of Black lives throughout the world.Trade Review“Norman Ajari’s Darkening Blackness is a masterful defense of Afro-American pessimism and Black Male Studies against the misguided view that ‘pessimism’ means hopelessness and eternal defeat. Instead, pessimism is treated as meaning the rejection of fantasies, especially the fantasy that says one more revision will alter insidious white racialized civil society and intrinsically unjust Euro/American institutions. Step into Ajari’s theoretical world and step out unburdened by fantasy.”Leonard Harris, Purdue University“For those who still do not understand that the pessimism in Afropessimism is not an emotional dispensation but a meta-critique of the first principles of Western thought, Norman Ajari’s Darkening Blackness is required reading. His analysis of Black Male Studies will have as many people nodding their heads as shaking their heads, which is the first step toward rigorous and honest debate.”Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor’s Professor of African American Studies, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist ParadigmChapter 2 Theoretical Origins of AfropessimismChapter 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black MenChapter 4 A Politics of AntagonismsPostface By Tommy CurryNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisClass is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public. But what exactly is a ‘class’? How do sociologists study and measure it, and how does it correspond to everyday understandings of social difference in the twenty-first century? In a time when inequality has dramatically returned to the social scientific and political agenda, this accessible and lively book explores these questions and more. It takes readers through the key theoretical traditions in class research, the major controversies that have shaken the field and the continuing effects of class difference, class struggle and class inequality across a range of domains. This new edition covers the latest research and scholarship and includes extended discussions of race, the rise of national populism, and the reconfigurations of class in a global age. This book will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences, and anyone wanting to get a handle on this provocative concept.Trade Review‘Will Atkinson captures the richness of theories and debates about social class in a brilliant new edition that is both timely and topical. This excellent book engages with a highly contested area in a way that is both accessible and fascinating.’Diane Reay, University of Cambridge‘Atkinson’s book accomplishes two crucially important things: it explains why the concept of class is so confusing and, seemingly, muddled, while simultaneously demonstrating that it remains absolutely indispensable to social scientific research. This is a clear, cogent and, above all, useful book.’Elliot B. Weininger, The State University of New York, BrockportTable of Contents1 Introduction Part I Class Concepts 2 Class as Exploitation 3 Class as Life Chances 4 Class as Misrecognition 5 Intersections Part II Class Struggles 6 Social (Im)mobility 7 Educational Inequality 8 Health, Life and Death 9 Politics and Identity 10 Globalization, Space and Place Coda

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Book SynopsisA superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these vessels in the world; two decades and a financial crisis later, there are three times as many. Grégory Salle argues that these are not whimsical fads: on the contrary, luxury yachting highlights the social exclusivity of the wealthiest and the environmental waste they emit. Rather than being simply the plaything of billionaires with extravagant lifestyles, the superyacht offers a disconcerting reflection of the world as it is. A contemporary form of ostentatious seclusion, a magnifying glass for social inequalities, the superyacht leads us straight to the great questions of our time, including the question of ecocide. From class struggle to the over-consumption of the rich, from tax evasion to environmental crime, from eco-bleaching to the differential management of illegalities, to pull the thread of super yachting is to unspool the whole ball of capitalism.Trade Review‘Synecdoche is when a part stands in for the whole, and no part better represents the rise of a reckless, self-indulgent and damaging global plutocracy than superyachts. Once a rarity, there are now more than 5,000 of these monstrous floating mega-mansions, busy destroying marine ecosystems, undermining local, national and international law, and massively avoiding taxes. Grégory Salle paints a vivid picture of how these superyachts – costing hundreds of millions to build and many millions every year to operate – are a concrete expression of the grotesqueries of our current social disorder.’Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University‘Superyachts offers a deep dive into the world of the wealthiest. It is also a great case study for green criminology. In this breathtaking – and often humorous – book, Grégory Salle shows how capitalism is definitely destroying the planet.’Gwenola Ricordeau, California State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations & acronyms Preface to the English edition 1. A colossus at anchor 2. One form of excess can conceal another 3. Floating palaces 4. Specimens 5. UHNWI 6. Yachting lifestyle 7. The abode of production 8. Amsterdam’s red party 9. ISF-IFI & Co. 10. Riding the financial storm 11. Conspicuous seclusion 12. The political geography of luxury sailing 13. Playing the eco-friendly card (greenwashing) 14. Posidonia 15. The Marine Observatory 16. At sea/in a meeting 17. Red-handed 18. When Capitalocene and eco-socialism take to the water… Notes and references

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Book SynopsisEconomic corridors—ambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertaking—are dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization. Spanning multiple cities and croplands, these corridors connect metropolises via high-speed superhighways in an effort to make certain strategic regions attractive destinations for private investment. As policy makers search for decentralized and market-oriented means for the transfer of land from agrarian constituencies to infrastructural promoters and urban developers, the reallocation of property control is erupting into volatile land-based social conflicts. In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan argues that some of India's most decisive conflicts over its urban future will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms. Balakrishnan focuses on the first economic corridor, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and the construction of three new cities along it. The book derives its title from a current mode of resolving agrarian-urban conflicts in which agrarian landowners are being transformed into shareholders in the corridor cities, and the distributional implications of these new land transformations. Shifting the focus of the study of India's contemporary urbanization away from megacities to these in-between corridor regions, Balakrishnan explores the production of uneven urban development that unsettles older histories of agrarian capitalism and the emergence of agrarian propertied classes as protagonists in the making of urban real estate markets. Shareholder Cities highlights the possibilities for a democratic politics of inclusion in which agrarian-urban encounters can create opportunities for previously excluded groups to stake new claims for themselves in the corridor regions.Trade Review"This book exemplifies scholarship that goes beyond simplistic generalizations. It challenges the Western conceptualizations of India’s urbanization and development processes." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *"Balakrishnan has produced a definitive report on the effects of market liberalization and decentralization of governance in the Western Indian region of the Mumbai-Pune economic corridor." * Eurasian Geography and Economics *"The book is an empirically rich and highly informative narrative of 'agrarian-urban uneven development' along India’s new economic corridors." * South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal *"This book is well-written and easy to read. It takes on a difficult, complex set of processes and makes them accessible. It is ambitious in its scope, trying to bring together diverse theoretical frameworks that don’t often speak to each other." * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"In Shareholder Cities, compendious scholarship from agrarian, development and urban studies, law, planning, and history is woven together into a rich analytical fabric. Sai Balakrishnan has achieved such a tour de force in the new, necessary and transgressive field of agrarian urbanization that it is impossible not to be selective in these reflections." * Regional Studies *"[A]n original contribution to scholarship on urbanization in India’s post-liberalization era, and it fills a major gap in the literature on the political economy of Maharashtra and the role therein of Maratha-caste agrarian elites…Balakrishnan offers a fascinating and empirically rich account of the political and economic transformations along the new economic corridors." * Pacific Affairs *"Shareholder Cities brings nearly every big development question and debate in India into sharp focus. Through deep and rich case studies of cities along one of India's largest infrastructure corridors (Mumbai-Pune), Balakrishnan shows how large-scale land use changes are being driven, negotiated, and contested. Weaving together central themes in the most influential paradigms of developmental transformation, Sai Balakrishnan shows how capital, farmers, castes, state logics, and local democratic institutions all intersect in producing a range of outcomes. Shareholder Cities is that rare book that does not merely theorize but actually makes us understand how big structural forces of development work themselves out through the local." * Patrick Heller, Brown University *"Original, thoughtful, and timely, Shareholder Cities offers a fresh perspective on the political economy of land use change in one of the most dynamic regions of India." * Sanjoy Chakravorty, Temple University *"Shareholder Cities is a pathbreaking study of peripheral development along India's transportation corridors. Breaking with the urban-rural binary, Sai Balakrishnan compares different treatments of liminal space to identify those most benefiting poor people. Her attention to cooperatives is a particularly important investigation of the redevelopment of formerly agricultural lands into urban real estate." * Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City *

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Book SynopsisThis book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. Underground details how developers and municipal officials have invested tremendous sums of money to gentrify and expand Bucharest's constellation of subterranean Metro stations and pedestrian pathways, basements and cellars, bunkers and crypts to provide upwardly mobile residents with space to live, work, and play in an overcrowded and increasingly unaffordable city center. In this sense, the repurposed underground facilitates dreams of middle-class ascendancy. This sense of optimism, the book shows, invariably gives way to ambivalence as the middle classes confront the indignities of being incorporated into the city from below.Bruce O'N

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Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be the hardworking families of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo trumpeted on Labor Day 2020. But what if those heroes, those essential workers and their families, wrote the book themselves?In Until We're Seen, the heroes write their own stories. Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We're Seen chronicles COVID-19's devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color, even as the United States has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts.Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were a

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Book SynopsisThe shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and structures. The authors document the changing politics of race and class in the age of Trump across a broad range of phenomena, showing how new forms of racialization work to alter the economic protections of whiteness while promoting some conservatives of color as models of the neoliberal regime. Through careful analyses of diverse political sites and conflicts—racially charged elections, attacks on public-sector unions, new forms of white precarity, the rise of black and brown political elites, militia uprisings, multiculturalism on the far right—they highlight new, interwoven deployments of race in the ascendant age of inequality. Using the concept of “racial transposition,” the authors demonstrate how racial meanings and signification can be transferred from one group to another to shore up both neoliberalism and racial hierarchy.From the militia movement to the Alt-Right to the mainstream Republican Party, Producers, Parasites, Patriots brings to light the changing role of race in right-wing politics.Trade Review"In exploring the contemporary politics of whiteness, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes offer a powerful analysis of white precarity embedded in an antiracist critique of white supremacy in multicultural times. Producers, Parasites, Patriots is a necessary and welcome work."—Cristina Beltrán, New York University"In the age of neoliberal precarity, the authors argue, traditional protections of “whiteness” no longer prevent government workers from being depicted as parasites, and conservatives of color, along with languages of civil rights and multiculturalism, get resignified as models of conservative patriotism. This is a well-written and detailed examination of the ways racial identity gets transposed."—CHOICE"It offers a clear and unique understanding of how the state of contemporary politics necessitates a re‐thinking about the ideological barriers that we often assume polemically separate the political left and right."—Sociology of Health & Illness"HoSang and Lowndes have opened-up space for dialogue around race and class in the present age. In doing so, they bring to light the limitations of liberal anti-racism."—New Political Science"Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes state in their fascinating new book Producers, Parasites, Patriots that only by providing a more critical understanding of contemporary right-wing politics can we be prepared to resist the growth of far-right movements."—Political Science Quarterly "Producers, Parasites and Patriots offers compelling insight for a general public trying to make sense of the dynamic,complex, and at times contradictory behavior of the American political right."—Journal of African American Studies

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Book SynopsisExploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor Are taxi drivers in today’s era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? So argue the authors of Spent behind the Wheel. Bringing together sociological and legal perspectives with feminist theoretical insights, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray examine the case study of contemporary professional passenger driving in the United States. On the one hand, they show, the rise of the gig economy has brought new attention to the industry of professional passenger driving. On the other hand, the vulnerabilities that professional drivers experience remain hidden. Drawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Hua and Ray argue that working for ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft shares similarities with driving for taxi companies in the impact on driver lives. Lyft and Uber sell the idea of industry disruption, but in fact they entrench long-standing modes of extracting the reproductive labor of their drivers for the benefit of consumer lives. Reproductive labor—conventionally understood as feminized labor—is extracted, but masked, behind the masculinized, racialized bodies of drivers. Professional driving is thus best understood alongside domestic and other gendered service work as reproductive labors devalued and often demonetized to benefit the national economy. Spent behind the Wheel is a must for readers interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers’ capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state. Trade Review "Spent Behind the Wheel exposes the harms of professional driving, illuminating the ways that capital accumulation sucks the vitality of reproductive laborers—those who make the world work for others but at the expense of their own health and well-being, men as well as women. With the increasing dominance of Uber and Lyft, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s intersectional feminist critique of the gig economy is both timely and potent."—Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel’s application of feminist theory to ride-hailing is forward-thinking and valuable."—Journal of American Planning Association "Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s critical analysis of drivers’ reproductive labour is certainly timely and highly valuable."—Le Travail Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Uber Drivers as Service Workers1. It’s Not the App: The Labor of Driving2. Financializing Driver Lives: Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Insurance3. Driver Criminalization: Systemic Racism in the Passenger Ride Industry4. Who Gets Disability Justice? Rethinking AccommodationConclusion: Drivers in the Time of COVID-19NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisExploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor Are taxi drivers in today’s era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? So argue the authors of Spent behind the Wheel. Bringing together sociological and legal perspectives with feminist theoretical insights, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray examine the case study of contemporary professional passenger driving in the United States. On the one hand, they show, the rise of the gig economy has brought new attention to the industry of professional passenger driving. On the other hand, the vulnerabilities that professional drivers experience remain hidden. Drawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Hua and Ray argue that working for ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft shares similarities with driving for taxi companies in the impact on driver lives. Lyft and Uber sell the idea of industry disruption, but in fact they entrench long-standing modes of extracting the reproductive labor of their drivers for the benefit of consumer lives. Reproductive labor—conventionally understood as feminized labor—is extracted, but masked, behind the masculinized, racialized bodies of drivers. Professional driving is thus best understood alongside domestic and other gendered service work as reproductive labors devalued and often demonetized to benefit the national economy. Spent behind the Wheel is a must for readers interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers’ capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state. Trade Review "Spent Behind the Wheel exposes the harms of professional driving, illuminating the ways that capital accumulation sucks the vitality of reproductive laborers—those who make the world work for others but at the expense of their own health and well-being, men as well as women. With the increasing dominance of Uber and Lyft, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s intersectional feminist critique of the gig economy is both timely and potent."—Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel’s application of feminist theory to ride-hailing is forward-thinking and valuable."—Journal of American Planning Association "Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s critical analysis of drivers’ reproductive labour is certainly timely and highly valuable."—Le Travail Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Uber Drivers as Service Workers1. It’s Not the App: The Labor of Driving2. Financializing Driver Lives: Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Insurance3. Driver Criminalization: Systemic Racism in the Passenger Ride Industry4. Who Gets Disability Justice? Rethinking AccommodationConclusion: Drivers in the Time of COVID-19NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisBased on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, this book describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way they get things done into alignment with their environmental values. Because the ability to make changes is constrained by their culture and capitalist society, there are negative consequences and trade-offs involved in these household-level sustainability practices. The households described in this book shed light on the full extent of the trade-offs involved in promoting sustainability at the household level as a solution to environmental problems.Table of Contents1. Introduction: “This Can’t Be All Up to Me” 2. Eco-Conscious Household Production and Capitalist Society 3. Priorities in Eco-Conscious Households 4. Resources and Constraints in Eco-Conscious Households 5. Managing Household Waste 6. Cleanliness and Comfort 7. Doing Their Own Research 8. Conflict 9. “How Do We Live with Ourselves?” 10. Conclusion: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

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Book SynopsisPolitical and public stories about class and food rarely scrutinize how socio-economic and cultural resources enable access to certain foods. Tracing the symbolic links between everyday eating at home and broader social frameworks, this book examines how classed relations play out in middle-class homes to show why class is relevant to all understandings of food in Great Britain. The author illuminates how ‘good’ food, and the identities configured through its consumption, is associated with middle-class lifestyles and why this relationship is often unquestioned and thus saliently normalized. Considering food consumption in a wider social context, the book offers an alternative understanding of class relations, which extends academic, political and public debates about privilege.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food 3. Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities, and Biographical Transitions 4. Homemade Food: Individualised Processes of Household Investment 5. Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSpanning the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, this comparative study brings maternal workers’ politicized voices to the centre of contemporary debates on childcare, work and gender. The book illustrates how maternal workers continue to organize against low pay, exploitative working conditions and state retrenchment and provides a unique theorization of feminist divisions and solidarities. Bringing together social reproduction with maternal studies, this is a resonating call to build a cross-sectoral, intersectional movement around childcare. Maud Perrier shows why social reproduction needs to be at the centre of a critical theory of work, care and mothering for post-pandemic times.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Counter-Thinking from the Nursery: Theorizing Contemporary Childcare Movements 2. Selfish Strikers and Intimate Unions: Early Years Educators’ Walkouts and the Big Steps Campaign, Australia 3. Mothering the Mothers: Stratified Depletion and Austerity in Bristol, United Kingdom 4. At the Table or Thrown under the Bus: Migrant Nannies’ Organizing and Childcare Coalitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic 5. Maternal Worker Power Pandemic Postscript

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Book SynopsisWinner, David Easton Award for Political Theory, 2023 In Resounding Events, one of the world’s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. From youthful experiences of McCarthyism, to the resurgence of white evangelicalism, to the advent of aspirational fascism and the acceleration of the Anthropocene, Connolly traces a career spent passionately engaged in making a more just, diverse, and equitable world. He surveys the shifting ground upon which politics can be pursued; and he discloses how to be an intellectual in universities that today do not encourage that practice. Far more than a memoir, Resounding Events probes the concerns that have animated Connolly’s work across more than a dozen books by tracing the bumpy imbrications of event, memory and thinking in intellectual life. Connolly experiments with ways to capture various voices that mark a self at any time. An event, as he elaborates it, is what disturbs or inspires thinking as it activates layered sheets of memory. A memory sheet itself assembles recollections, dispositions organized from the past, and vague remains that carry efficacies. Resounding Events shows how resonances between event and memory can help forge new concepts better adjusted to an emergent situation. Addressing tensions between working class experience and norms of the academy, his father’s coma, antiwar protests, the growing disaffection of the white working class, the neoliberalization of the university, climate denialism, and his sister’s experience with workers shifting to Trump, Connolly shows how engaged intellectuals become worthy of the events they encounter.Table of ContentsPrologue: Event, Memory, Thinking . . . | 1 1 Professionals and Intellectuals | 9 2 A Fifty-Yard Dash | 42 3 The Pioneer Valley | 73 4 The Hopkins School of Theory | 108 5 The New Fascist Revolt | 150 Epilogue: Echoes and Spiritualities | 185 Acknowledgments | 193 Notes | 197 Bibliography | 205 Index | 213

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Book SynopsisWinner, David Easton Award for Political Theory, 2023 In Resounding Events, one of the world’s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. From youthful experiences of McCarthyism, to the resurgence of white evangelicalism, to the advent of aspirational fascism and the acceleration of the Anthropocene, Connolly traces a career spent passionately engaged in making a more just, diverse, and equitable world. He surveys the shifting ground upon which politics can be pursued; and he discloses how to be an intellectual in universities that today do not encourage that practice. Far more than a memoir, Resounding Events probes the concerns that have animated Connolly’s work across more than a dozen books by tracing the bumpy imbrications of event, memory and thinking in intellectual life. Connolly experiments with ways to capture various voices that mark a self at any time. An event, as he elaborates it, is what disturbs or inspires thinking as it activates layered sheets of memory. A memory sheet itself assembles recollections, dispositions organized from the past, and vague remains that carry efficacies. Resounding Events shows how resonances between event and memory can help forge new concepts better adjusted to an emergent situation. Addressing tensions between working class experience and norms of the academy, his father’s coma, antiwar protests, the growing disaffection of the white working class, the neoliberalization of the university, climate denialism, and his sister’s experience with workers shifting to Trump, Connolly shows how engaged intellectuals become worthy of the events they encounter.Table of ContentsPrologue: Event, Memory, Thinking . . . | 1 1 Professionals and Intellectuals | 9 2 A Fifty-Yard Dash | 42 3 The Pioneer Valley | 73 4 The Hopkins School of Theory | 108 5 The New Fascist Revolt | 150 Epilogue: Echoes and Spiritualities | 185 Acknowledgments | 193 Notes | 197 Bibliography | 205 Index | 213

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Book SynopsisAristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He contends that although the pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped as frivolous and decadent, the Austro-Hungarian nobility, and thus the monarchy, in fact had great staying power. This work is a social history of the bureaucracy of the Ballhausplatz primarily in the decade leading up to 1914, though it provides a thorough overview of the service during the entire Dualist period.

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Book SynopsisThirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society.Trade Review"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreword (Mary Romero). Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Differences and Inequalities (Jodi O’Brien). PART I. EVERYDAY INTERACTION. Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television (Jocelyn A. Hollander). "I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement (Linda Van Leuven). Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers (Carl Edward Pate). "Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds (Lori Kendall). PART II. MANAGING SELF/SOCIETY CONFLICTS. Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military (Melissa S. Herbert). Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination (Thomas J. Gerschick). Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life (Martha L. Shockey). Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain (France Winddance Twine). Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women (Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso). PART III. INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS. The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography (Shelley Kowalski). Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts (Jennifer L. Eichstedt). The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement (Douglas Hartmann). Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market (Anthony J. Freitas). Afterthoughts (Judith A. Howard). Index.

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Book SynopsisThirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society.Trade Review"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Foreword xiMary Romero Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: Differences and Inequalities 1Jodi O’Brien Part I. Everyday Interaction 41 Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television 43Jocelyn A. Hollander "I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement 73Linda Van Leuven Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers 97Carl Edward Pate "Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds 131Lori Kendall Part II. Managing Self/Society Conflicts 155 Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military 157Melissa S. Herbert Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination 189Thomas J. Gerschick Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life 213Martha L. Shockey Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain 237France Winddance Twine Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women 253Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso Part III. Institutional Dynamics 281 The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography 283Shelley Kowalski Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts 309Jennifer L. Eichstedt The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement 337Douglas Hartmann Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market 361Anthony J. Freitas Afterthoughts 385Judith A. Howard Index 397

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Book SynopsisThe rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuriesTrade Review"Tucker reconsiders the sociology of the public sphere by viewing it through the lens of performativity. Such a perspective highlights the ways that public spheres 'aestheticize' daily life and make possible new forms of subjectivity and collective life. What is especially impressive about this book is that Tucker develops his ideas at both an analytical and empirical level. The notions of the public sphere and civil society are today integral to debates about democracy and social change in both the academe and among activists. Tucker offers an original statement that is both compelling and important." -Steven Seidman, SUNY AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Theoretical Reflections 1. Public Life, Aesthetics, and Social Theory 2. Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics 3. Identity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Aesthetic Politics Part II. History and Social Movements 4. The World Is a Stage and Life Is a Carnival: The Rise of the Aesthetic Sphere and Pop u lar Culture 5. Labor and Aesthetic Politics: French Revolutionary Syndicalism, the IWW, and Fascism 6. The Flowering of Aesthetic Politics: May 1968, the New Social Movements, and the Global Justice Movement Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisState socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Łódź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.

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Book SynopsisIn the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

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Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.Table of ContentsPreface to the Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments to the Anniversary Edition Introduction 1 Mutual Interests 2 The Ties That Bind 3 A Distinctive Faith 4 The Bean a Ti (Woman of the House) 5 Habitations 6 All the Goods and Chattels 7 Porches, Yards, Gardens, Fences 8 Linen Tablecloths and Lace Curtains Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the anatomy of neoliberalism and education from a Marxist perspective. It is the dialectical materialism of neoliberal ideas, examining the material conditions of how these ideas and practices emerged, and under what conditions. Each of these elements is related to the other and can only be properly understood as part and parcel of the whole system of capitalism, which links them together. This book investigates neoliberalism's political, cultural, and financial tools. It goes deep in the forces who have supported neoliberalism and how it became ""common sense"". It explores the imperialist outcomes and the social devastation it created. It then goes to see how these ideas and policies have been implemented in education. In short, it is the materialist conception of the history of the American empire. It then uses the analytic tools developed through this investigation to re-read the neoliberal educational reforms.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the anatomy of neoliberalism and education from a Marxist perspective. It is the dialectical materialism of neoliberal ideas, examining the material conditions of how these ideas and practices emerged, and under what conditions. Each of these elements is related to the other and can only be properly understood as part and parcel of the whole system of capitalism, which links them together. This book investigates neoliberalism's political, cultural, and financial tools. It goes deep in the forces who have supported neoliberalism and how it became ""common sense"". It explores the imperialist outcomes and the social devastation it created. It then goes to see how these ideas and policies have been implemented in education. In short, it is the materialist conception of the history of the American empire. It then uses the analytic tools developed through this investigation to re-read the neoliberal educational reforms.

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Book SynopsisEmployment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries has aggravated the ability of former prisoners and people with criminal records to find gainful employment.After Prison opens with a former prisoner's story of reintegration employment experiences. Next,relying on a combination of research interviews, quantitative data, and literature, contributors present an international comparative review of Canada's evolving criminal record legislation; the promotive features of employment; the complex constraints and stigma former prisoners encounter as they seek employment; and the individual and societal benefits of assistingformer prisoners attain ""gainful"" employment. A main theme throughout is the interrelationship between employment and other central conditions necessary for safety and sustenance.This book offers suggestions for criminal record policy amendments and new reintegration practices that would assist individuals in the search for employment. Using the evidence and research findings of practitioners and scholars in social work,criminology and law, psychology, and other related fields, the contributors concentrate on strategies that will reduce the stigma of having been in prison; foster supportive relationships between social and legal agencies and prisons and parole systems; and encourage individually tailored resources and training following release of individuals.Trade ReviewAfter Prison is a frank assessment of hard realities....[an] appeal to a society that still believes in second chances. -- Holly Doan -- Blacklock's Reporter, 20180326Table of Contents Introduction: Rose Ricciardelli, Don Evans, & Adrienne Peters Section I - The Employment-Re-entry Enigma/Dilemma 1 Work after Prison: One Man's Transition: James Young 2 Employment and Desistance from Crime: Kemi S. Anazodo, Christopher Chan, and Rose Ricciardelli 3 Employment and Criminal Offenders with Mental Illness: Krystle Martin Section II - Criminal Histories, Employment Prospects, and Moving Forward 4 Job Search, Suspended: Changes to Canada's Pardon Program and the Impact on Finding Employment: Samantha McAleese 5 Vulnerabilities and Barriers in Post-Release Employment Reintegration as Indicated by Parolees: Rose Ricciardelli and Taylor Mooney Section III - Employment Reintegration Programming: Supportive Strategies and Related Outcomes 6 Is Criminal History at the Time of Employment Predictive of Job Performance? A Comparison of Disciplinary Actions and Terminations in a Sample of Production Workers: Mike G. Harmon, Laura J. Hickman, Alexandra M. Arneson, and Ashley M. Hansen 7 Transforming Rehabilitation: A Critical Evaluation of Barriers Encountered by an Offender Rehabilitation Program for South Asian/Muslim Offenders within the New Probation Service Model: Christine Victoria Hough 8 Promoting Employment Opportunities through Mentorship for Gang-Involved Youth Reintegrating into the Community: Adrienne M.F. Peters 9 Barriers to Community Reintegration: The Benefits of Client-Centered Case Management and Pre-employment Skills Training: Ashley Brown Section IV - The Employment Reintegration of Unique Populations 10 ""Between a Rock and Hard Place"": How Being a ""Convict"" Hinders Finding Work in the Neoliberal, Late Capitalist Economy: Dale C. Spencer 11 Does the ""Wrongful"" Part of Wrongful Conviction Make a Difference in the Job Market?: Kimberley A. Clow Conclusion: Employment Reintegration: Rose Ricciardelli & Adrienne Peters Contributors Rose Ricciardelli, Memorial University, St. John's, NL Donald G. Evans, John Howard Society, Toronto, ON Adrienne Peters, Memorial University, St. John's, NL James Young [undisclosed; former prisoner] Kemi S. Anazodo, York University, Toronto, ON Christopher Chan, York University, Toronto, ON Krystle Martin, Ontario Institute for Mental Health Treatment, Toronto, ON Samantha McAleese, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Taylor Mooney, Memorial University, St. John's, NL Mike G. Harmon, Portland State University, Portland, OR Laura J. Hickman, Portland State University, Portland, OR Alexandra M. Arneson, Portland State University, Portland, OR Ashley M. Hansen, Portland State University, Portland, OR Christine Victoria Hough, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Ashley Brown, John Howard Society, Toronto, ON Dale C. Spencer, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Kimberley A. Clow, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON

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Book SynopsisA general expectation has developed that China's middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or will to action. This timely volume examines the behaviour and identity of the different elements of China's middle class entrepreneurs, managers, and professionals - in order to understand their centrality to the wider processes of social and political change in China.The expert contributors seek to identify the social space occupied by the Chinese middle class rather than identifying social backgrounds and attitudes. In so doing they explore socio-political issues, the development of a consumer society, relationships between gender and class in the workplace, home-ownership and the appearance of gated communities, and the political interaction between the Party-state and the entrepreneurial middle classes and their impact on the new institutional economics.Providing a more nuanced understanding of the structure of the middle class in China and identifying dynamic elements in their behaviour, this unique book will prove a fascinating and thought provoking read for academics, students and researchers with an interest in Asian studies and public policy.Contributors include: C. Cartier, M. Chen, L. Chunling, D.S.G. Goodman, H. Hendrischke, D. Jianzhong, Y. Jing, J. Liu, J.L. Rocca, B. Tang, J. UngerTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Middle Class China – Discourse, Structure and Practice Minglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman 1. Sociopolitical Attitudes of the Middle Class and the Implications for Political Transition Li Chunling 2. Class, Consumption and the Economic Restructuring of Consumer Space Carolyn Cartier 3. Urban Housing-Status-Groups: Consumption, Lifestyles and Identity Beibei Tang 4. White-collar Workers: Gender and Class Politics in an Urban Organization Jieyu Liu 5. The Socioeconomic Status, Co-optation and Political Conservatism of the Educated Middle Class: A Case Study of University Teachers Beibei Tang and Jonathan Unger 6. Homeowners’ Movements: Narratives on the Political Behaviours of the Middle Class Jean-Louis Rocca 7. Institutional Determinants of the Political Consciousness of Private Entrepreneurs Hans Hendrischke 8. Understanding Entrepreneurs Yang Jing and Dai Jianzhong Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCapitalised Education is not a biography of Kate Middleton, but, rather, understands her wedding on April 29th 2011 as a 'plateau', wherein a complex knot of social, political and economic forces collided. The chapters of the book make up a non-linear history of the royal wedding, a history that is underpinned by the ways in which power has been handled by the British royal family through time.

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Book SynopsisMuch more than a simple compendium on the shape of social differentiation in China today, this ambitious volume takes on the earth-shattering shifts that officially swept away the concept of class (even as class contradictions grow ever sharper) and that replaced that term with 'stratum,' in line with regime 'dreams' of 'harmony.' The authors offer us a kaleidoscope of history, politics, and much else interpreted through the lens of class, providing a sophisticated, elegant set of chapters. The work amounts to a virtual treatise on Chinese society today - most of whose contributions would qualify as high-caliber journal articles. The tome provides a vigorous justification for a resurgence of class analysis.'- Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, US'China has witnessed extraordinary shifts in class structures in recent decades, affecting a fifth of the world's population. The Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China is the most comprehensive book on this vital topic. It brings together the expertise of twenty academic specialists on China, who write with admirable clarity and insight on the various important aspects of China's social hierarchy. This book is a tour de force.'- Jonathan Unger, Australian National University and Editor, The China Journal'This Handbook is an ideal text for courses on class and stratification in China as well as an excellent introduction for readers interested in knowing more about China. It includes many interesting topics, it is clearly written and highly readable and it addresses the continuity and change of contemporary Chinese society and politics.'- Xiaowei Zang, City University of Hong KongThis comprehensive and interdisciplinary Handbook illustrates the patterns of class transformation in China since 1949, situating them in their historical context. Presenting detailed case studies of social stratification and class formation in a wide range of settings, the expert international contributors provide invaluable insights into multiple aspects of China's economy, polity and society.The Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China explores critical contemporary topics which are rarely put in perspective or schematized, therefore placing it at the forefront of progressive scholarship. These include;- state power as a determinant of life chances- women's social mobility in relation to marriage- the high school entrance exam as a class sorter- class stratification in relation to health- China's rural migrant workers and labour politics.Eminently readable, this systematic exploration of class and stratification will appeal to scholars and researchers with an interest in class formation, status attainment, social inequality, mobility, development, social policy and politics in China and Asia.Contributors: J. Andreas, M. Blecher, J. Chan, M. Chen, L. Chunling, L. Du, M. Gao, B.C. Garcia, D.S.G. Goodman, Y. Guo, R. Hasmath, P. Lu, S. Sargeson, M. Selden, W. Sun, L. Tomba, T.E. Woronov, X. Wu, S. Yu, Z. ZhangTrade Review‘Much more than a simple compendium on the shape of social differentiation in China today, this ambitious volume takes on the earth-shattering shifts that officially swept away the concept of class (even as class contradictions grow ever sharper) and that replaced that term with “stratum,” in line with regime “dreams” of “harmony.” The authors offer us a kaleidoscope of history, politics, and much else interpreted through the lens of class, providing a sophisticated, elegant set of chapters. The work amounts to a virtual treatise on Chinese society today – most of whose contributions would qualify as high-caliber journal articles. The tome provides a vigorous justification for a resurgence of class analysis.’ -- Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irving, US‘China has witnessed extraordinary shifts in class structures in recent decades, affecting a fifth of the world’s population. The Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China is the most comprehensive book on this vital topic. It brings together the expertise of twenty academic specialists on China, who write with admirable clarity and insight on the various important aspects of China’s social hierarchy. This book is a tour de force.’ -- Jonathan Unger, Australian National University and Editor, The China Journal‘This Handbook is an ideal text for courses on class and stratification in China as well as an excellent introduction for readers interested in knowing more about China. It includes many interesting topics, it is clearly written and highly readable and it addresses the continuity and change of contemporary Chinese society and politics.’ -- Xiaowei Zang, City University of Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Class and Stratification in the People’s Republic of China Yingjie Guo PART I HISTORY 1. Reconfiguring China’s Class Order after the 1949 Revolution Joel Andreas 2. The Cultural Revolution: Class, Culture and Revolution Mobo Gao 3. Class and Inequality in the Post-Mao Era Li Chunling PART II DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND CLASS FORMATION 4. State Power as a Determinant of Life Chances Yingjie Gao 5. Cultural Politics of Class: Workers and Peasants as Historical Subjects Wanning Sun 6. Women’s Social Mobility in China: Marriage and Class Song Yu 7. Ethnic Minority Status, Class, and the Urban Labour Market Reza Hasmath PART III WELFARE INDEXES 8. Education, Social Stratification and Class in China Liang Du 9. The High School Entrance Exam And/As Class Sorter: Working Class Youth and the HSEE in Contemporary China T. E. Woronov 10. Housing China’s Inequality Luigi Tomba 11. Class, Stratification and Health Inequities in Contemporary China Beatriz Carrillo Garcia PART IV THE RULING CLASS 12. China’s Emerging Ruling Class: Power, Wealth, and Status under Market Socialism David S. G. Goodman 13. China’s Top Leading Cadres: More Red, Expert, or Gold? Peng Lu PART V MIDDLE CLASSES 14. Transformation of China’s Socialist Brick: Reproduction and Circulation of Ordinary Cadres Peng Lu 15. The Growth of Chinese Professionals: A New Middle Class in the Making Zhuoni Zhang and Xiaogang Wu 16. China’s Private Entrepreneurs and the Party-state: Mutual Dependence and Political Institutionalization Minglu Chen PART VI WORKING CLASSES 17. Working Class Re-formation and De-formation in the PRC Marc Blecher 18. China’s Rural Migrant Workers and Labour Politics Jenny Chan and Mark Selden 19. A Predictable End? China’s Peasantry as a Class, Past, Present and Imagined Future Sally Sargeson Index

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Book SynopsisFewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a landmark multidisciplinary evaluation of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution.Drawing on international case studies, leading experts from across the social sciences offer 22 accessible and coherently organized chapters, which critically analyse a range of topics including: the legitimacy of extreme wealth from a moral economic perspective biographies of illicit super-wealth London's housing markets how the very wealthy fly the environmental consequences of super-rich lives crafting immigration policies to attract the rich. Students and scholars studying a host of topics such as development studies, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology will find this book eminently engaging. It will also be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations and NGOs concerned with wealth and income distributions.Contributors: R. Atkinson, J.V. Beaverstock, L. Budd, R. Burrows, L. Crewe, A. Davison, A.D. Dixon, R. Forrest, D.R. Green, S. Hall, T. Hall, I. Hay, I. Kapoor, S.Y. Koh, G. Mangraviti, A. Martin, I.A. Osuoka, A. Owens, R. Palan, C. Paris, D. Rhodes, A. Sayer, P.G. Schervish, S. Schulz, J.R. Short, E. Spence, A. Watson, B. Wissink, M. Woods, A. ZalikTrade Review'All you ever wanted to know about the super-rich but were too embarrassed to ask - because we are not really supposed to talk that much about money, especially not about people with huge amounts of money, people who are so very far above us. Thankfully nearly three dozen scholars have decided to break the usual taboos and reveal all about our wealthiest of fellow human beings. Just what have they done for us, how did they get so rich, what is their individual carbon footprint and so much more. The new gilded age is coming to an end. It begins to end as we study those who live in the most gilded of cages, no longer in admiration but with great inquisitiveness, and accuracy.' --Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UKVery highly recommended for both community and academic library reference collections, Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich will also prove to be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations, governmental policy makers, NGO activists, and the non-specialist general reader concerned with wealth and income distributions.' --The Midwest Book Review Table of ContentsContents: 1. ‘They’ve Never Had it so Good’: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Rich and Wealth Inequality Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Iain Hay 2. Reconsidering the Super-Rich: Variations, Structural Conditions, and Urban Consequences Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink and Ray Forrest PART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY 3. Historical Geographies of Wealth: Opportunities, Institutions and Accumulation, C.1800–1930 Alastair Owens and David R. Green 4. On Plutonomy: Economy, Power and the Wealthy Few in the Second Gilded Age Iain Hay 5. Interrogating the Legitimacy of Extreme Wealth: A Moral Economic Perspective Andrew Sayer 6. Billionaire Philanthropy: ‘Decaf Capitalism’ Ilan Kapoor 7. Making Money and Making a Self: The Moral Career of Entrepreneurs Paul G. Schervish 8. Taking Up Caletrío’s Challenge: Silence and the Construction of Wealth Eliteness in Jamie Johnson’s Documentary Film Born Rich Sam Schulz and Iain Hay 9. “One Time I’ma Show You How To Get Rich!” Rap Music, Wealth and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Mogul Allan Watson 10. Biographies of Illicit Super-Wealth Tim Hall PART II LIVING WEALTHY 11. Capital City? London’s Housing Markets and the ‘Super-Rich’ Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows and David Rhodes 12. The Residential Spaces of the Super-Rich Chris Paris 13. Reconfiguring Places – Wealth and the Transformation of Rural Areas Michael Woods 14. Performing Wealth and Status: Observing Super-yachts and the Super-rich in Monaco Emma Spence 15. Flights of Indulgence (Or How the Very Wealthy Fly): The Aeromobile Patterns and Practices of the Super-Rich Lucy Budd 16. Looking at Luxury: Consuming Luxury Fashion in Global Cities Louise Crewe and Amber Martin 17. The Luxury of Nature: The Environmental Consequences of Super-Rich Lives Aidan Davison PART III WEALTH AND POWER 18. Attracting Wealth: Crafting Immigration Policy to Attract the Rich John Rennie Short 19. Sovereign Wealth and the Nation-State Adam D. Dixon 20. Super-Rich Capitalism: Managing and Preserving Private Wealth Management in the Offshore World Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Sarah Hall 21. Troubling Tax Havens: Multi-Jurisdictional Arbitrage and Corporate Tax Footprint Reduction Ronen Palan and Giovanni Mangraviti 22. No Change There! Wealth and Oil Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka and Anna Zalik Index

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Book SynopsisWhile recent studies have highlighted the phenomenon and risks of increased inequalities between the top and the bottom of society, little research has so far been carried out on trends relating to the median income range that generally represents the middle class. This volume examines the following questions: what are the main transformations in the world of work over the last 20 years in terms of the labour market, social dialogue and conditions of work, wages and incomes that may have affected the middle class? How has the middle class been shaped by the financial and economic crisis? What are the long-term trends for the middle class in Europe?This volume also investigates the potential risks and effects of the reshuffling, or even weakening, of the middle class. On the social side, it explores the ramifications of further retrenchment of the European Social Model, which to a great extent has traditionally been funded by the middle class. On the economic side, the book investigates whether this process - especially from the perspective of consumption and human capital - is endangering the long-term sustainability of the current economic model. While presenting evidence of a definite erosion of the middle class, this book assesses the specific situation in each individual EU Member State on the basis of detailed statistics and case studies of professional categories that traditionally represent the middle class.This book issues a timely warning about the latest trends and future of the middle class in Europe. On this basis, it presents policy considerations and options that will be useful to policy-makers for ensuring the future of the middle class in Europe. Scholars and researchers of European studies and social policy, especially from its sustainability perspective, will find the volume an invaluable reference.Contributors include: J.I. Antón, D. Anxo, T. Barbieri, G. Bosch, P. Courtioux, C. Erhel, K. Espenberg, A. Figueiredo, H. Figueiredo, S. Giakoumatos, P. González, D. Grimshaw, T. Kalina, M. Karamessini, S. Kuypers, B. Maître, N. Maitre, I. Marx, J. Masso, I. Mierina, R. Muñoz-de-Bustillo Llorente, B. Nolan, A. Rafferty, W. Salverda, L.D. Santos, A. Simonazzi, I.G. Tóth, D. Vaughan-Whitehead, R. Vazquez-AlvarezTable of ContentsContents: 1. Is The World of Work Behind Middle Class Reshuffling? Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Rosalie Vazquez-Alvarez and Nicolas Maitre 2. Is The World of Work Stimulating Middle Class Growth in the Baltic States? Jaan Masso, Inta Mierina and Kerly Espenberg 3. Social Concertation and Middle Class Stability in Belgium Sarah Kuypers and Ive Marx 4. Transformation in the World of Work and the Middle Class: The French Experience Pierre Courtioux and Christine Erhel 5. The Erosion of the German Middle Class: The End of the ‘Levelled-Out, Middle Class Society’? Gerhard Bosch and Thorsten Kalina 6. The Greek Middle Classes Facing an Uncertain Future Maria Karamessini and Stefanos Giakoumatos 7. Is Hungary Still in Search of its Middle Class? István György Tóth 8. Middle Incomes in Boom and Bust: The Irish Experience Bertrand Maître and Brian Nolan 9. The Middle Class in Italy: Reshuffling, Erosion, Polarization Annamaria Simonazzi and Teresa Barbieri 10. Stagnating Incomes and the Middle Class in the Netherlands: Running to Stand Still? Wiemer Salverda 11. Still Holding On? Inequality, Labour Market and Middle Income Groups in Portugal Pilar GonzáLez, AntóNio Figueiredo, Hugo Figueiredo and Luis Delfim Santos 12. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Changes in the World of Work and the Middle Class in Spain Rafael Muñoz-De-Bustillo and José-Ignacio Antón 13. The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Middle Class? Dominique Anxo 14. How Have Middle-Income Households Fared in Unequal Britain? A Focus on Work and Employment Trends Damian Grimshaw and Anthony Rafferty Index

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Book SynopsisThe Mobilities Paradox: A Critical Analysis asks how the mobilities paradigm, arguably one of the most influential theoretical innovations of the 21st century, holds up against the empirical realities of a deeply unequal world. Korstanje's provocative analysis pairs a sweeping overview of the theoretical landscape with specific instances of tourism, terrorism, hospitality, automobility, digital technologies, and non-places to put mobilities theory to the test.'- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USThe theory of mobilities has gained great recognition and traction over recent decades, illustrating not only the influence of mobilities in daily life but also the rise and expansion of globalization worldwide. But what if this sense of mobilities is in fact an ideological bubble that provides the illusion of freedom whilst limiting our mobility or even keeping us immobile? This book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the mobilities paradigm and reminds us that today only a small percentage of the world?s population travel internationally. In doing so the author?s insightful analysis constructs a bridge between Marxism and Cultural theory.Offering a critical discussion of the theory of mobilities, the book explores the concept in the context of colonialism, nation states, consumption, globalization, fear and terrorism. This unique book presents an alternative viewpoint that is vital reading for cultural theorists, sociologists, anthropologists and Marxist scholars seeking a different understanding of the theory of mobilities.Trade Review'In his book, Korstanje sets himself the ambitious task of joining cultural critique and materialist dialectics to show how the great social evolution of globalization underpins changes in human mobility. He succeeds brilliantly in his ambition. This book offers a thought-provoking argument that calls for a re-thinking in many fields.' --Geoffrey R Skoll, Buffalo State SUNY, US’'In this influential work, Maximiliano Korstanje makes a radical proposal: fear places an epistemological barrier around our quest for truth, making us blind to reality. Look no further than 9/11 to discern the inner workings of this truth machine. Oligarchically controlled corporate mass media has historically been the primary instrument for advancing this objective. This book is essential reading for anyone who is curious to know what lies beyond the matrix of manufactured truths about our social lives.' --Babu George, Fort Hays State University, US'This book offers a very deep and important discussion around the nature and evolution of mobility. The progressive approach adopted in this book makes it easy to read and facilitates the understanding of some of the underpinning issues our society is facing. In so doing, the book explores how the world has changed after 9/11, as well as the different visions of mobility and hospitality. Case studies are used to illustrate the discussions. This book can be of interest for advanced researchers and students in tourism as geopolitics and sociology are quite central in this field particularly in our day and age.' --Hugues Seraphin, University of Winchester UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The theory of Mobilities 2. The manipulation of emotions 3. The rise of the Nation-state and hospitality 4. The life in the Island: metaphors of immobilities 5. Leashing the Dogs of War 6. The Life of Mary and Roger 7. Towards an Epistemology of Emotions, Written in Collaboration with Adrian Scribano Conclusion: Dialogue with Marc Augé References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city’s greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, the author draws a rich portrait of Belfast society and explores both the public and inner lives of Victorian bourgeois families. Leading business families like the Corrys and the Workmans, alongside their professional counterparts, dominated Victorian Belfast’s civic affairs, taking pride in their locale and investing their time and money in improving it. This social group displayed a strong work ethic, a business-oriented attitude and religious commitment, and its female members led active lives in the domains of family, church and philanthropy. While the Belfast bourgeoisie had parallels with other British urban elites, they inhabited a unique place and time: ‘Linenopolis’ was the only industrial city in Ireland, a city that was neither fully Irish nor fully British, and at the very time that its industry boomed, an unusually violent form of sectarianism emerged. Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast provides a fresh examination of familiar themes such as civic activism, working lives, philanthropy, associational culture, evangelicalism, recreation, marriage and family life, and represents a substantial and important contribution to Irish social history.Trade Review‘The book skilfully combines family archives, memoirs, periodicals, newspapers, and business records to illustrate the economic interests and cultural values undergirding a shared experience... Johnson’s thoroughly researched and detailed rendering of middle-class life should be a starting point for anyone interested in the social history of Ireland.’ Mary Hatfield, Irish Historical Studies ‘[V]ery real warmth and solidity... a rich book. Its breadth and depth of referenced material place it as a source book in its own right.’ Brenda Collins, Familia: Ulster Genealogical ReviewTable of Contents1. Portrait of an elite2. Business, civic and work life3. Northern Athens? Cultural and intellectual life4. A divided city5. Lifestyle and recreation 6. Women and family7. Civic pride and identity

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Book SynopsisThe Salvation Army is well known for its work with the poor and disadvantaged. There is, however, much more to the story of the Salvation Army than their highly commendable good works. They have been so closely identified with a programme of social action that their wider history has been marginalized. This history includes a period of astonishing levels of opposition and religious persecution which the Army faced in its early years. Many Salvationists were badly injured in violent street riots against them while at the same time facing imprisonment as the force of the law was brought to bear on their evangelism. Among all those places in Britain where the Salvation Army was persecuted, that in the south-coast town of Eastbourne during the 1880s and 1890s stands out as worthy of attention. The Sussex seaside resort played a hugely important part in the wider anti-Salvation Army narrative as it was in Eastbourne that opposition was among the most violent and protracted. Significantly and surprisingly, the vehemence and savagery was supported by the local Council and Mayor. The narrative of The Mob and The Mayor is chronological and entirely evidence based. It includes: Eyewitness accounts; newspaper reports; Parliamentary papers; Eastbourne Council & Watch Committee Meetings Minutes; and Salvation Army documents. Britain was at times at war with itself as the country came to terms with urban poverty resulting from the Industrial Revolution. The persecution of the Salvation Army at the Victorian seaside sheds a wider light on the struggles to promote social betterment for all.Trade Review"Eastbourne may seem the height of gentility now, but in the 1880s and 1890s it was the scene of violent persecution. Even the local council and mayor got in on the act. And the subject of their wrath? The Salvation Army. The better-off, who had retired to the town, found the Salvationist commitment to the poor and their evangelistic methods quite alien. The Army also angered the working-classes, who didnt wish to be admonished about the evils of drink. Skeleton armies targeted marching bands and riots broke out. The council made street marches a punishable offence, but the Salvationists carried on marching, suffering injury and jail. Who won? Read this absorbing tale to find out." -- Angela Wintle, Sussex Life, February 2021

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Book SynopsisThe formulation ‘egalitarian strangeness’ is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Rancière. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in Le Maître ignorant [The Ignorant Schoolmaster] (1987), Rancière reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. The present book explores embedded forms of social and cultural ‘apportionment’ in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter. Part One considers the ‘refrain of class’ audible in works by Claude Simon, Charles Péguy, Marie Ndiaye, Thierry Beinstingel, and Gabriel Gauny and examines how these authors’ practices of language connect with that refrain. In Part Two, Hughes analyses forms of domination and dressage with reference to Simone Weil’s mid-1930s factory journal, Paul Nizan’s novel of class alienation Antoine Bloyé from the same decade, and Pierre Michon’s Vies minuscules [Small Lives] (1984) with its focus on obscure rural lives. The reflection on how these narratives draw into contiguity antagonistic identities is extended in Part Three, where individual chapters on Proust and the contemporary authors François Bon and Didier Eribon demonstrate ways in which enduring forms of cultural distribution are both consolidated and contested.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: By Way of RancièrePART I: THE REFRAIN OF CLASSChapter 1 Events and Sensibility in Claude Simon’s L’AcaciaChapter 2 ‘Les Savoirs de la main’: Dramas of Manual Knowledge in Péguy and BeinstingelChapter 3 A Solitary Emancipation: Ndiaye’s La Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinièreChapter 4 The Worker Philosopher: Gauny and Self-BelongingPART II: DISTURBANCE AND DRESSAGEChapter 5 Animal laborans: Missing Life in Paul Nizan’s Antoine BloyéChapter 6 A Degrading Division: Hands and Minds in Simone WeilChapter 7 Pierre Michon, ‘Small Lives’, and the Terrain of ArtPART III: AUDIBLE VOICESChapter 8 Tales of Distribution in A la recherche du temps perduChapter 9 Convocation, or On Ways of Being Together: François BonChapter 10 Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier EribonConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMaeve O’Riordan opens the doors of the country house (or the big house as it is often referred to) in Ireland to reveal the lives of women among the Irish ascendancy. Drawing on personal records from twelve different families, the reader is provided with unprecedented insights into the female experience among the privileged landed class at a time of social upheaval in Ireland. Space is given to these women’s voices as they navigated the limited roles available to women at the time. Unmarried women are not excluded and their efforts at forging careers and identities outside the home are also uncovered. Though their names are now forgotten, women like Mabel O’Brien – who was depicted as wife, mother and society woman in her husband Dermod’s painting The Jewel (pictured on the front) – contributed to the public success of their families through their dutiful, private roles. Their marriages forged important social links and their commitment to home duties ensured that the family residence was a centre of prestige. Women of the Country House in Ireland will appeal to anyone interested in the history of women or the ascendancy. It invites you to step into the country houses of Ireland and, for the first time, to get to know the women who lived within their grand drawing rooms before the onset of the First World War and the Irish War of Independence.Trade ReviewReviews ‘O’Riordan’s insightful analysis is a real pleasure to read and no mean feat in a challenging archival context. Women of the Country House in Ireland more than achieves its goal of bringing women’s contributions into the foreground of our histories of elite life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland and opens the door for future explorations of gender and power in this stratum of Irish society.’ Leonie Hannah, Irish Historical Studies'Meticulously researched... written in a clear, approachable way and analyzing previously unexamined archival materials, the study will benefit both specialists and general readers interested in the lives of Victorian women and the Irish ascendancy.'Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga, Victorian Studies‘Women of the Country House in Ireland should be of interest not only to historians but also to those in other disciplines who study social inequality, and not just gender inequality. The complexity, contradictions and constraints of the multiple statuses that these women held is masterfully revealed in this book.’ Samuel Clark, History 'Women of the Country House in Ireland does much more than fill a significant gap in the existing historiography of the landed class in Ireland... It will be a welcome addition to the history of women in Ireland, of rural landed classes, of the elite classes Ireland and Britain.' Keelin Burke, Journal of Family HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. House and estate2. Courtship: for love and money3. Matrimony and married life4. Producing heirs5. Family and friendship6. Expressing taste and talent7. Independence and life outside the home8. Paternalism: philanthropy and activismConclusion

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Book SynopsisCritical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research. A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionality research with other critical practices. Examining the foundational texts that explain historical developments in systems of oppression and interdisciplinary research on marginalized communities, state-of the-art chapters explore the intersections emerging in studies of gender and sexuality, capitalism, white supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, climate emergencies, imperial decline, and public health. Reconsidering the ways in which scholar-activists carry out research, the Research Handbook demonstrates how an intersectional gaze and a continued commitment to social justice moves us closer to producing valuable research and, ultimately, transforming knowledge. Advancing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, this incisive Research Handbook will be an invaluable tool for scholars and researchers hoping to undertake meaningful intersectional research. Its empirical findings will further benefit practitioners tasked with designing intersectional policy.Trade Review‘Mary Romero is once again pushing the boundaries of intersectionality, reaching backward as well as forward to reveal intersectionality’s deep history and future evolution. All this in a single volume with dozens of contributors demonstrating how to put intersectionality into practice in both research and activism on an astonishingly wide range of issues.’ -- – Leslie McCall, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US‘Mary Romero’s Research Handbook on Intersectionality is timely and compelling! This multidisciplinary, historical, transnational, and global collection of excellent articles, with Romero’s incisive introduction, emphasizes the salience of intersectional methodologies. Significantly, it highlights the conceptual and contextual complexities in doing intersectional research. A must read for scholars, activists, and students interested in engaging in research, transforming knowledge, and in linking theory and meaningful praxis.’ -- Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University, US‘Mary Romero has added a vital resource to the copious literature on intersectionality by building on the highlights of path-breaking classic arguments while combining these in each article with the newest applications of the concept to a wide field of concerns. Both established voices and emerging scholars contribute to centering the issues of practical application to research and activism, and including rarely considered topics such as disability, human rights, and indigeneity. A timely reference for those new to the field but also a source of inspiration for even the most knowledgeable scholars.’ -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US‘This cutting-edge volume brings together a number of well-established experts to explore the doing or practice of intersectional work across a number of (trans)disciplinary spaces, and especially in regard to certain neglected areas of scholarship such as settler colonialism, indigenous studies, applied research, and transnationalism. In doing so, the volume extends intersectional scholarship in critical and necessary ways. This is an indispensable contribution to the field.’ -- Vrushali Patil, Florida International University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: intersectionality and transforming the production of knowledge 1 Mary Romero PART I FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH 2 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist and journalist 15 Lori Amber Roesser 3 Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964): intersectionality and activism 33 Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 4 Du Boisian sociology and intersectionality 51 Matthew W. Hughey 5 The Social Settlement Movement and activist scholarship 69 Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge PART II INTERSECTIONAL RESEARCH IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES SECTION IIA CRITICAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 6 Intersectionality as an ethical commitment 90 Sophie Withaeckx 7 Disability and rural poverty in the global South 108 Shaun Grech 8 Anti-colonial praxis in community-based research in feminist food studies 123 Barbara Parker SECTION IIB CRITICAL SEXUALITY STUDIES 9 Researching sexuality and state 143 Jyoti Puri 10 Space, place and urban future 158 Marcus Anthony Hunter and Terrell J.A. Winder 11 Making sexuality, gender, and migration intersectional 170 Salvador Vidal-Ortiz SECTION IIC CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES 12 Indigeneity, feminisms, and activism 186 Renya K. Ramirez 13 Intersectionality and ethnography 204 Robert Keith Collins 14 Thrivance: an indigenous queer intersectional methodology 223 Andrew J. Jolivétte SECTION IID CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 15 Intersectional insights into lived citizenship 239 Daniela Cherubini 16 Heterosexual marriage-related regimes 257 Laura Odasso 17 Intersectionality, citizenship and labor 274 Pallavi Banerjee and Carieta O. Thomas 18 Gender-based violence and citizenship in a migration context 292 Evangelia Tastsoglou and Lori Wilkinson PART III INTERSECTIONALITY AND APPLIED RESEARCH SECTION IIIA SOCIAL WORK, DIASTER RECOVERY AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 19 Intersectionality and immigrant and refugee trauma 313 Filomena M. Critelli and Asli Cennet Yalim 20 Power dynamics driving disasters’ impacts, response, and recovery 332 Lynn Weber and Anna Smith Pruitt 21 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women’s health 351 Karen J. Leong, Kathy Nakagawa, and Aggie J. Yellow Horse SECTION IIIB SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY STUDIES 22 Scholar activist intersectional approaches 370 Akosua Adomako Ampofo 23 Multi-level analyses of homecare labor 385 Cynthia J. Cranford and Jennifer Jihye Chun 24 Environmental activism and immigrant women of color 404 Nadia Y. Kim 25 Children’s rights and social change 421 Brian Gran and Colette Ngana PART IV INTERSECTIONAL GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM 26 Centering region and multi-scalar lenses 443 Ghassan Moussawi 27 Intersectionality and migrant smuggling research 458 Gabriella Sanchez 28 Intersectionality beyond its traditions 476 Bandana Purkayastha and Miho Iwata 29 Centering intersectionality in transnational research 494 Anjana Narayan and Erica Morales Index

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Book SynopsisTraditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes. This is what makes the life of a working class academic all the more interesting, rich and powerful. How have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism? How have they navigated their way, and what has the journey been like? Do they continue to identify as working class or has their social positioning and/or identities shifted? Iona Burnell Reilly presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education – how they got there, what their journeys were like, what their experiences were, if they faced any struggles, conflicts, prejudice and discrimination, and if they had to, or still do, negotiate their identities. Told in their own words the academics chart their journeys and explore their experiences of becoming an academic while also coming from a working class background. Although a working class heritage under-pins the autoethnography of each of the writers, the interlocking sections between class, race, gender and sexuality will also be relevant.Trade ReviewThis compelling anthology of stories from academics who identify as having a working-class background offers new insights into our understanding of the relationship between academia and class. Offering a substantial contribution to the body of research that uses autoethnography, the volume opens a platform for academic authors to reflect on their own lived experience through critical study of oneself and one’s own socio-cultural context. The book is a useful resource for autoethnographic research and readers who want to understand the lived experiences of becoming a higher education professional; they will see farther and more clearly through the authors’ lenses. Although a working-class heritage under-pins the autoethnography of each of the writers, the intersections of social class with race and gender are also explored, providing in-depth knowledge about personal journeys into academic life. While the legacy of elitism remains in higher education, and with very little history or class culture in the field of higher education to identify with, the volume can, give voice to and authenticate their experiences, and more importantly, challenge the dominant discourses that maintain and perpetuate elitism and exclusion within higher education. The collection provides a solid foundation for students and academics, of important questions being asked about transitioning into academic life. -- Professor Giorgia Doná, co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East LondonThis book fully explores the developmental journey and experiences of working class academics, using an effective approach which brings together class, race, ethnicity, gender and the intersection between them. Class issues which have long been sidelined are finally foregrounded and examined through a critical conversation focusing on the lives of academics whose backgrounds diverge from the middle class norm. The book provides a platform for the authors to discuss who they are as academics, their family backgrounds and what it means to be a professional in the academy. Burnell Reilly invites working class academics to write about their careers in higher education. This use of autoethnography is important as it generates a profound understanding of the lived experiences of individuals. The work is compelling and makes a significant contribution to our insights into the predicament of working class academics. The book therefore has the potential to improve efforts to encourage more inclusive approaches to supporting the recruitment and advancement of those from less traditional backgrounds. -- Dr Victoria Showunmi, Associate Professor Institute of Education University College LondonThis inspirational book critically analyses and reflects upon the journeys of colleagues from a working class background into the perceived higher echelons of academia, using autoethnography as its methodology. The stories are honest and impactful as they describe the often not straight-forward routes into higher education. Instead, the routes meander through education, seizing opportunities as they arise. Many academics recognize the imposter syndrome and feelings of not-belonging in a certain arena, with notions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and identity firmly ingrained into the culture. However, the contributors to this book have demonstrated a tenacity and attitude towards learning that has led them to where they are now, warriors and champions of widening participation. This book will be useful to academics to reflect upon their own journeys but mainly to all who think that higher education and the world of academia is ‘not for them’, based upon their views and experiences of class, etc. Being the first in one’s family to attend higher education and then pursue a career in it may feel challenging and daunting and could be accompanied by a sense of loss (of identity) and betrayal (of background). This book acknowledges those feelings through its reflexive and often cathartic accounts while also demonstrating what can be achieved. -- Dr Jodi Roffey-Barentsen School of Education University of BrightonAs a postgraduate student, I have found this collection of autoethnographic studies to be an enlightening experience when considering my approach to my studies. The format of these autoethnographic findings has shown that there is another way possible, a way that allows a deeper examination of a subject that is so close to me and that allows me the scope to delve into it intensely. This collection has shown me the importance of personal power when discussing issues relevant to the self and how utilisation of that power can be cathartic while creating a deeper understanding from the perspective of the writer. This interesting compilation has been invaluable to me as I take my next steps along my educational path, giving a powerful insight into how others have used an auto ethnographical approach to critically examine a variety of subjects. The book has been able to show the scope of this method and its possible uses within my work and I am sure it will be a helpful starting point for other students who are considering the possible structure of their studies. -- Joanne McLeod Post Graduate Research Student MA Education: Culture, Language and Identity Goldsmiths, LondonTable of ContentsChapter 1. Navigating the Relational Character of Social Class for Capitalism in the Academy; Alpesh Maisuria Chapter 2. Mr. Airport Man & the Albatross: A reverie of flight, hope and transformation; Craig A. Hammond Chapter 3. Power, corruption and lies: fighting the class-war to widen participation in higher education; Colin McCaig Chapter 4. ‘Friends First, Colleagues Second’: A collaborative autoethnographic approach to exploring working-class women’s experiences of the neoliberal academy; Carli Rowell and Hannah Walters Chapter 5. Coming to terms with the academic self: place, pedagogy and teacher education; ML White Chapter 6. The Rubik’s Cube of Identity; Khalil Akbar Chapter 7. Uptown Top Ranking: From a Council Estate to the Academy; Marcia A. Wilson Chapter 8. One’s Place and the Right to Belong; Iona Burnell Reilly Chapter 9. Who do you think you are? The influence of working class experience on an educator in a process of becoming; Peter Shukie Chapter 10. John Constable was my first art teacher: Construction of desire in a working-class artist/academic; Samantha Broadhead Chapter 11. Class is a verb: lived encounters of a minority ethnic academic who self-identifies with aspects of working-class cultures in the UK; Stephen Wong Chapter 12. Reading the posh newspapers; Teresa Crew Chapter 13. Thames Estuary Academic; Jo Finch Concluding chapter: Tackling ‘the taboo’: the personal is political (and it’s scholarly too); Michael Pierse

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Book SynopsisThis book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city’s greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, the author draws a rich portrait of Belfast society and explores both the public and inner lives of Victorian bourgeois families. Leading business families like the Corrys and the Workmans, alongside their professional counterparts, dominated Victorian Belfast’s civic affairs, taking pride in their locale and investing their time and money in improving it. This social group displayed a strong work ethic, a business-oriented attitude and religious commitment, and its female members led active lives in the domains of family, church and philanthropy. While the Belfast bourgeoisie had parallels with other British urban elites, they inhabited a unique place and time: ‘Linenopolis’ was the only industrial city in Ireland, a city that was neither fully Irish nor fully British, and at the very time that its industry boomed, an unusually violent form of sectarianism emerged. Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast provides a fresh examination of familiar themes such as civic activism, working lives, philanthropy, associational culture, evangelicalism, recreation, marriage and family life, and represents a substantial and important contribution to Irish social history.Trade Review‘The book skilfully combines family archives, memoirs, periodicals, newspapers, and business records to illustrate the economic interests and cultural values undergirding a shared experience... Johnson’s thoroughly researched and detailed rendering of middle-class life should be a starting point for anyone interested in the social history of Ireland.’ Mary Hatfield, Irish Historical Studies ‘[V]ery real warmth and solidity... a rich book. Its breadth and depth of referenced material place it as a source book in its own right.’ Brenda Collins, Familia: Ulster Genealogical ReviewTable of Contents1. Portrait of an elite2. Business, civic and work life3. Northern Athens? Cultural and intellectual life4. A divided city5. Lifestyle and recreation 6. Women and family7. Civic pride and identity

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Book SynopsisOver the last 25 years, nearly two billion people across the globe have risen out of poverty and income levels have risen worldwide. Yet in the US, the top 1% earn twice the amount of income as the poorest 50% of the population. In the midst of rising prosperity, economic dissatisfaction--driven by the persistent fear felt by many that they are ''falling behind''--is higher than at any point since the 1930s. In Understanding Economic Inequality, the author brings an economist's perspective informed by new, groundbreaking research on inequality from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and political science and presents it in a form that it is accessible to those who want to understand our world, our society, our politics, our paychecks, and our neighbors' paychecks better. As any history of the 21st century would be incomplete without understanding ''the 99% versus the 1%'', the insights provided by the author will prove valuable to any reader. This book also provides the foundation for undergraduate courses on wealth and income inequality, and an essential reading for introductory economics, labor economics, public policy, law, or sociology courses.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. How Do We Measure Unequal? The Who, Where, What, When, and How of Inequality 2. How Unequal Are We? Six Major Facts 3. Why Might Inequality be Necessary? Incentives, Freedom, and Efficiency 4. Why Does Unequal Matter? The Economic Externalities of Inequality 5. Why has Domestic Inequality Risen, and Fallen, and Risen? 6. Why are the Three Most Important Factors in Global Inequality Location, Location, and Location? 7. Is Inequality a Problem We Can Solve? 8. What is the Future of Economic Inequality? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Encyclopedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy is a comprehensive reference text that explores how the social and solidarity economy (SSE) plays a significant role in creating and developing economic activities in alternative ways. In contrast to processes involving commodification, commercialisation, bureaucratisation and corporatisation, the SSE reasserts the place of ethics, social well-being and democratic decision-making in economic activities and governance. Identifying and analysing a myriad of issues and topics associated with the SSE, the Encyclopedia broadens the knowledge base of diverse actors of the SSE, including practitioners, activists and policymakers.Analysing the role of SSE organisations and enterprises in enhancing wellbeing, planetary health and democracy at various levels and their contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the Encyclopedia invaluably summarises knowledge about the key aspects of the SSE. Accomplished researchers depart from traditional nationalistic, Eurocentric and trans-Atlantic perspectives to explain the SSE from a global perspective with a focus on untold stories of its development in both developing and developed countries.A collective work of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE (UNTFSSE), this Encyclopedia will serve as an essential tool for scholars and students of comparative social policy, international economics, management studies and economic sociology.Key Features: 57 entries Clearly organised into thematic sections addressing histories, concepts and theories, actors and organisations, development, and environment and governance Breaks down the complex relationship between economic, social and political dimensions in an accessible way Trade Review‘A comprehensive overview that clearly demonstrates the significant contribution of the Social and Solidarity Economy in addressing the leading issues of our time, including globalization, social justice and inequalities. This is an important resource for researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders which can be leveraged for promoting inclusive and sustainable development.’ -- Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations‘A product of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) Knowledge Hub, the Encyclopaedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy is a welcome contribution to our stock of knowledge on the topic. I applaud our colleagues in the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD), a co-founder and member of the UNTFSSE, for putting this comprehensive reference text together. It will be a useful resource as the International Labour Organization and its constituents seek to implement the conclusions on decent work and the social and solidarity economy, adopted at the 110th International Labour Conference in June 2022.’ -- Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Oganization‘This magnificent work captures the rich diversity of experiences, backgrounds and visions of those of us who work in people-centered economics. It is, therefore, an essential tool for consolidating a paradigm of international cooperation that makes an effective impact in each territory.’ -- Ariel E. Guarco, President of the International Cooperative Alliance, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Preface xviii PART I HISTORIES, CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 1 Activism and social movements 2 Hamish Jenkins and Yvon Poirier 2 Community economies 12 Stephen Healy, Ana Inés Heras and Peter North 3 Contemporary understandings 19 Peter Utting 4 Ecological economics 27 Dražen Šimleša 5 Feminist economics 37 Suzanne Bergeron 6 Globalization and alter-globalization 44 Carmen Marcuello, Anjel Errasti and Ignacio Bretos 7 Heterodox economics 53 Jean-Louis Laville 8 Indigenous economies 61 Luciane Lucas dos Santos 9 Moral economy and human economy 68 Jean-Louis Laville 10 Origins and histories 73 Jean-Louis Laville 11 Postcolonial theories 83 Luciane Lucas dos Santos 12 The Black social economy 92 Sharon D. Wright Austin 13 The commons 97 Anabel Rieiro PART II ACTORS AND ORGANIZATIONS 14 African American and distributive justice 106 Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo 15 Associations and associationalism 114 Bruno Frère and Laurent Gardin 16 Community-based organizations 122 Kiran Kamal Prasad 17 Cooperatives and mutuals 132 Chiyoge B. Sifa and Caroline Shenaz Hossein 18 LGBT inclusion 139 Vincenza Priola and Saoirse C. O’Shea 19 Migrants and refugees 148 Giulia Galera and Leila Giannetto 20 Activism and social movements 156 Edith Archambault 21 Social enterprises 164 Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens 22 Women’s self-help groups 173 Christabell P.J. 23 Youth 181 Davorka Vidović PART III LINKAGES TO DEVELOPMENT 24 Care and home support services 188 Christian Jetté, Yves Vaillancourt and Catherine Lenzi 25 Culture, sports and leisure sectors 195 Nadine Richez-Battesti and Francesca Petrella 26 Education sector 201 Christina A. Clamp and Colleen E. Tapley 27 Energy, water and waste management sectors 210 Waltteri Katajamäki 28 Finance sector 217 Riccardo Bodini and Gianluca Salvatori 29 Food and agriculture sector 225 Judith Hitchman 30 Gender equality and empowerment 232 Bipasha Baruah 31 Health and care sector 241 Jean-Pierre Girard 32 Housing sector 249 Alice Pittini 33 Information and communication technology (ICT) 256 Raymond Saner, Lichia Saner-Yiu and Samuel Bruelisauer 34 Local community development 265 Luis Razeto Migliaro 35 Peace and non-violence 273 Smita Ramnarain 36 Reduction of hunger and poverty 282 Judith Hitchman 37 Reduction of multidimensional inequalities 288 Andrea Salustri 38 Social services 296 Susanne Elsen 39 Sustainable investment, production and consumption 304 Cynthia Giagnocavo 40 The Sustainable Development Goals 311 Denison Jayasooria and Ilcheong Yi 41 Tourism sector 322 Gilles Caire 42 Work integration 330 Kate Cooney, Marthe Nyssens and Mary O’Shaughnessy PART IV ENABLING ENVIRONMENT AND GOVERNANCE 43 Access to markets 339 Darryl Reed 44 Co-optation, isomorphism and instrumentalisation 349 Nadine Richez-Battesti and Francesca Petrella 45 Financing 357 Gianluca Salvatori and Riccardo Bodini 46 Legal frameworks and laws 366 David Hiez 47 Local and territorial development plans 373 Hamish Jenkins 48 Management 383 Sang-Youn Lee 49 Participation, governance, collective action and democracy 389 Jeová Torres Silva Junior 50 Partnership and co-construction 395 Marguerite Mendell 51 Public policy 401 Peter Utting 52 Resilience in the context of multiple crises 410 Beverley Mullings and Tinyan Otuomagie 53 Social policy 417 Ilcheong Yi 54 Statistical measurement 426 Marie J. Bouchard 55 Supporting organizations and intermediaries 435 Hamish Jenkins 56 The institutional ecosystem 445 Jean-Marc Fontan and Benoît Lévesque 57 Working conditions and wages 454 Kunle Akingbola and Carol Brunt Index 464

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Book SynopsisThe growing chasm between rich and poor, within societies and between nations, has enormous implications not only for people’s well-being and life chances but for the prospects for democracy throughout the world. From the interpersonal to the societal level, social inequality is the central feature of social life. Helping students appreciate and understand this is the most important task of social science instruction.Garth Massey provides a down-to-earth guide to teaching and learning that emphasizes historically and comparatively the social construction and institutional maintenance of social inequality. It explores approaches to teaching big ideas and theories, along with the challenges raised by the notions and assumptions students bring to class. The author emphasizes how to unpack and make comprehensible the complexity of social inequality in society today and also how to explore the often quantitative understandings provided by contemporary research.Highly attractive is the accessible style of this book, encouraging open classroom discussion and examination of sometimes contentious topics such as class and racial privilege, homelessness, gender preference and sexual identity, shrinking opportunities for social mobility, and global human migration. Its scope makes it a useful tool for instructors of social movements, globalization, race and ethnicity, gender studies, border studies and all courses that impart an understanding of social life.Trade Review‘Practical and comprehensive, this guide is a wonderful resource for instructors seeking to engage students in an essential and timely area of sociology. Chapters step the instructor through the complexities of teaching a broad and changing field, offering approaches to engage students’ sociological imagination and critical thinking skills.’ -- Scott Sernau, Indiana University South Bend, USTable of Contents1 Introduction to Teaching Social Inequality 2 From inequality to stratification 3 Typical challenges in teaching social inequality 4 Getting started with big questions 5 Ideas about inequality 6 Theories of inequality: functionalism to power-conflict 7 Inequality as power 8 Stratification and mobility 9 Wealth and poverty 10 Global inequality 11 Consequences of inequality: spillover or by design? 12 Current trends in inequality: forces at play 13 Learning with quantitative material 14 Responding to inequality: social movements 15 Student research on inequality References Appendix: a sample syllabus Index

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to analyse one of the most pressing social problems of recent years, namely exclusion. The authors bring a richness of perspective, drawing on the experiences of eight European countries and a range of disciplines from law and economics through to social policy and political studies. The EU is a special case worthy of study as it may be that the process of integration actually generates both problems and solutions to social exclusion.The authors focus on what can be achieved by European countries working together and pooling experiences. They show that not only is social exclusion ill-defined but that there are many differing concepts of social exclusion across Europe reflected in health, education, housing and employment. The book reveals the need for a strong dynamic element in policy, producing early and focused action for individuals and groups in society. While rejecting the need for transfers of income between countries, Social Exclusion and European Policy discusses whether there is something extra to be done at the EU level that cannot currently be carried out by member states or through existing co-operation.With its multi-disciplinary approach and emphasis on policy solution, this will be invaluable reading for policymakers within EU institutions, NGOs and scholars and researchers of European studies and social policy protection.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Issue at Stake Part II: European Approaches to Social Exclusion Part III: Solutions References Index

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