Social mobility Books

Book SynopsisA fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC''s ''Great British Class Survey''.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find themselves in the margins as well as in the centre.Their new conceptualization of class is based on the distribution of three kinds of capital - economic (inequalities in income and wealth), social (the different kinds of people we know) and cultural (the ways in which our leisure and cultural preferences are exclusive) - and provides incontrovertible evidence that class is as powerful and relevant today as it''s ever been.Trade ReviewThis endlessly fascinating study... is indispensable if you want to understand modern Britain -- Rod Liddle * Sunday Times *A fascinating read, going deep into the interplay between wealth, culture and society, and making the strong case that traditional class divisions don't really help us to understand these forces any more . . . anybody in the UK discussing class henceforth will need to get this down of the shelf -- Hugo Rifkind * Times *Convincing and fascinating . . . this book marshals impressive evidence to show how inequality is increasing. -- Robert Colvile * Telegraph *There's something for everybody here . . . it will start many conversations * Evening Standard *

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Book Synopsis''Pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal'' Hilary MantelLynsey Hanley grew up part of the ''respectable working class''. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This book is about what it means to cross class divides, what we leave behind in order to get on, and how class affects all of us today.''There is fury contained within the pages and between the lines of Respectable ... intelligent and important'' Colin Grant, Guardian''Honest, brave and moving'' Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level''Lynsey Hanley is such a crucial voice. When she writes about class, she is writing about lived experience'' Owen Jones, New Statesman''Hanley vividly describes the risky, lonely journey she undertook from one class to another ... She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition'' Craig Brown, Mail on SundayTrade ReviewAmbitious, impressive... There is fury contained within the pages and between the lines of Respectable... an intelligent and important book that deserves to be widely read -- Colin Grant * Guardian *Hanley vividly describes the "risky, lonely journey" she undertook from one class to another... She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *Why is class still so central to the experience of living in Britain? It is an urgent question, evaded through a kind of collective shame, but Lynsey Hanley approaches it with wit and passion. Respectable is pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal but solidly grounded in a lifetime's experience of analysing the world around her. It is one of those valuable books that enables the reader to re-think her past and re-experience her own life. -- Hilary MantelHonest, brave and moving, Respectable opens up the emotional experience of navigating across class boundaries in an unequal world. -- Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

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Book SynopsisChildhood poverty has moved from the periphery to the centre of the policy agenda following New Labour's pledge to end it within twenty years. However, whether the needs and concerns of poor children themselves are being addressed is open to question. The findings raise critical issues for both policy and practice - in particular the finding that children are at great risk of experiencing exclusion within school. School has been a major target in the drive towards reducing child poverty. However, the policy focus has been mainly about literacy standards and exclusion from school. This book shows that poor children are suffering from insufficient access to the economic and material resources necessary for adequate social participation and academic parity. Childhood poverty and social exclusion will be an invaluable teaching aid across a range of academic courses, including social policy, sociology, social work and childhood studies. All those who are interested in developing a more inclusive social and policy framework for understanding childhood issues from a child-centred perspective, including child welfare practitioners and policy makers, will want to read this book. Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion series Series Editor: David Gordon, Director, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. Poverty, inequality and social exclusion remain the most fundamental problems that humanity faces in the 21st century. This exciting series, published in association with the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol, aims to make cutting-edge poverty related research more widely available. For other titles in this series, please follow the series link from the main catalogue page.Trade Review"The sharp observations of these young citizens on their schooling, on problems in their neighbourhood and on the deficiencies of their leisure opportunities, set an agenda for any practitioner who aspires to tackle family poverty." Community Care"Ridge's work enters a previously underdeveloped field of poverty-related research, and in doing so makes substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions. This book will be of interest to those involved in the development and evaluation of public policy, researches concerned with policy and poverty, and those involved in education - as well as to anyone wanting to move toward a rich, contextual understanding of how the world is experienced and negotiated by children." Family Matters"This book is an accessible and informative read for anyone researching, studying and working on poverty and social exclusion... It is a book that deserves to be widely read, and one that demands to be acted upon." International Journal of Social Welfare "... an extremely useful contribution to the literature on poverty. The value of recording and reporting children's experiences in their own words is indisputable." Children, Youth and Environments "... important and timely." Youth & Policy"...a vivid and comprehensive picture of what it is like to grow up poor in Britain today." Journal of Social Policy"This book provides richness and context to debates about childhood poverty, and remedies for it, from the perspectives of children themselves." Sue Middleton, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough UniversityTable of ContentsContents: The challenge of child poverty: developing a child-centred approach; What do we know about childhood poverty?; Children's access to economic and material resources; 'Fitting in' and 'joining in': social relations and social integration; Family life and self-reflection; Experiences and perceptions of school: analysis of BHPYS data; Childhood poverty and social exclusion: incorporating children's perspectives.

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Book SynopsisThis report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in developing regions. This measurement is based upon internationally agreed definitions arising from the international framework of child rights. Indicators of severe deprivation of basic human need for shelter, sanitation, safe water, information, health, education and food were constructed using survey data on nearly 1.2 million children in 46 countries collected mainly during the late 1990's. This is the largest, most accurate survey sample of children ever assembled.Table of ContentsChild poverty and child rights in developing countries; Measurement of child poverty and standard of living; Absolute poverty and severe deprivation among children in the developing world; Conclusions and policy implications.

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020 One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020 'Unputdownable ... Hong's razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger long after you put Minor Feelings down' - AnOther, Books You Should Read This Year 'A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by an award-winning poet and essayist' - Asia House 'Brilliant, penetrating and unforgettable, Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics ... To read this book is to become more human' - Claudia Rankine author of Citizen 'Hong says the book was 'a dare to herself', and she makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to be a classic' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth.Trade ReviewWe are so not ready for what Cathy Park Hong does in Minor Feelings. And thankfully, she does not care whether we are ready or not. ... Her vision and execution are so breathtaking. And so genius. And so absolutely scary. Read it. Reread it. It will read you. -- Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyStudded with moments [full of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness." * the New York Times *Formidable ... [this] book bled a dormant discomfort out of me with surgical precision. -- Jia Tolentino * New Yorker *Lands like a sucker punch to the gut ... We learned so much from Minor Feelings, not least what a dazzling writer Cathy Park Hong is. * Independent, Best Essay Collections for International Women's Day *Hong lays bare the shame and confusion she felt in her youth as the daughter of Korean immigrants, and the way those feelings morphed as she grew older .. underscores essential themes of identity and otherness * Time *Minor Feelings is anything but minor. In these provocative and passionate essays, Cathy Park Hong gives us an incendiary account of what it means to be and to feel Asian American today ... Minor Feelings is absolutely necessary. -- Nguyen Thanh Viet, author of the SympathizerHong writes masterfully ... [she] names and illuminates issues of race and gender that long went unnamed, creating a blistering new handbook to the state of race in America. -- Adrienne Westenfeld * Esquire *A fierce catalogue of that which has not been named and yet won't be ignored. An electric intervention, a provocation and a renewal. -- Alexander Chee, author of 'How To Write An Autobiographical Novel'Tremendous. The entire time I read, I was hissing yes and yes and YESSSSS ... It felt like having someone sit me down in a chair and say your feelings are real and this is how we got here and here is a way out all at once. It broke my heart with relief." -- Mira Jacob, author of Good TalkHong's essays are wry and unapologetically direct, challenging how we think, how we communicate and what we too quickly assume to understand. Minor Feelings is a sharp and urgent exploration of those hard-to-name sensations that govern racial consciousness. * Refinery 29 *In Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong has turned a sharp, yet tender gaze on her own life and contradictions, all while simultaneously probing and tearing apart with relentless exactitude accepted (and often lazy and ill-informed) notions of what it means to be Asian-American in the 21st Century. The book is also surprisingly funny and full of stories and characters, including Hong herself, who kept me turning the pages. It was one of my favorite reads this year. -- Attica Locke author of Heaven My Home and writer for Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)Thought-provoking -- Curtis Sittenfeld

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Book SynopsisGrowing up in Diverse Societies offers an assessment of the lives and attitudes of young ethnic minorities. Using recent data on c. 19,000 adolescents in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the editors have compared minorities and the majority revealing patterns of integration across immigrant origins and destination countries.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together an exciting range of new studies of top incomes in a wide range of countries from around the world. The studies use data from income tax records to cast light on the dramatic changes that have taken place at the top of the income distribution. The results cover 22 countries and have a long time span, going back to 1875.Table of Contents1. Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 ; 2. Income inequality and progressive income taxation in China and India, 1986-2015 ; 3. The evolution of income concentration in Japan, 1886-2005: Evidence from income tax statistics ; 4. Top incomes in Indonesia, 1920-2004 ; 5. Top incomes in a rapidly growing economy: Singapore ; 6. The rich in Argentina over the twentieth century 1932-2004 ; 7. Top Incomes in Sweden over the twentieth century ; 8. Trends in top income shares in Finland ; 9. Top incomes in Norway ; 10. Income and wealth concentration in Spain in a historical and fiscal perspective ; 11. Top incomes and earnings in Portugal 1936-2005 ; 12. Top incomes in Italy 1974-2004 ; 13. Top incomes in the long run of history

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Book SynopsisBased on pioneering research on top incomes, this volume uses data from income tax records in 10 OECD countries over the past century to cast new light on the dramatic changes that have taken place among top earners. The volume provides rich material for exploring inequality, taxation, the impact of wars, and executive compensation.Table of Contents1. Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century: A Summary of the Main Findings ; 2. Measuring Top Incomes: Methodological Issues ; 3. Income, Wage, and Wealth Inequality in France, 1901-1998 ; 4. The Distribution of Top Incomes in the United Kingdom, 1908-2000 ; 5. Income and Wage Inequality in the United States, 1913-2002 ; 6. The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000 ; 7. The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia ; 8. The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand ; 9. Top Incomes in Germany throughout the Twentieth Century, 1891-1998 ; 10. Top Incomes in the Netherlands over the Twentieth Century ; 11. Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the Twentieth Century ; 12. Long Term Trends in Top Income Shares in Ireland ; 13. Towards a Unified Data Set on Top Incomes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While, as the authors argue, to compare is human, a lot goes into which comparisons we make. Whether individuals engage in upward or downward comparison makes a huge difference in how they construct inequality in their minds and their political responses to this inequality. Condon and Wichowsky argue that which comparisons individuals choose to engage in, and which ones they are encouraged to make by the media and the political machinery determines how they react. Their ability to connect the dots between economic trends, social psychology, and politics of identity construction create an engaging book with tremendous salience for the present political moment." * Population and Development Review *"[The Economic Other] explores the central role of social comparison in the politics of inequality, focusing on ways that race and gender determine the nature and impact of cross-class comparisons. . . . [The book] investigates why Americans have not demanded more economic redistribution despite the substantial increases in income inequality. . . . [and] evaluates whether these reinforcing patterns regarding social comparison can be interrupted." * Journal of Economic Literature *“This book offers a wide range of insights and valuable causal inferences, serves as a methodological model that will likely be referenced in the future, and is sufficiently theoretically overabundant that scholars and students will likely be reading and building on it for many years to come.” * Perspectives on Politics *"Why are ordinary citizens so indifferent to socioeconomic inequality? Condon and Wichowsky offer a fresh, brilliant explanation to this central question of our time: the psychology of social comparison. Looking up at the privileged fosters awareness of inequality and support for ameliorating measures, but it is also uncomfortable and, therefore, rare. For emotional self-preservation, people would rather look down at the less fortunate, which undercuts mobilization around inequality. Engagingly written, theoretically sophisticated, and full of fascinating new data, this volume is a stand-out among the many books now examining inequality." -- Andrea Campbell, MIT"It is no longer deniable that social class matters in United States politics. Condon and Wichowsky lay open how it works for the thoughts and behaviors of members of the public. Their careful and lucid analyses show us that in this context of economic inequality, people are often comparing themselves to others whom they perceive to be faring better or worse and that these comparisons matter for our contemporary politics. This is a sophisticated take that maintains a focus on gender and race and treats economic distinctions as the social and political phenomena that they are." -- Katherine J. Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison"Rooted in social-psychological theory and a wealth of data from survey experiments, The Economic Other shines a bright light on a puzzling feature of our times: why soaring economic inequality has not produced a correspondingly strong demand for redistributive action. It shows that cross-class social comparisons importantly shape opinions about redistributive programs. Looking upward at high-income people encourages support for redistribution. But looking upward is uncomfortable and is discouraged by residential segregation, economic anxiety, and misleading media. Most Americans either avoid comparisons or look downward, reassuring themselves but blunting egalitarian impulses. Still, the authors offer some possible cures for this self-reinforcing dynamic of inequality." -- Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University"This is an important book, addressing an important set of questions, using innovative techniques to get answers. Condon and Wichowsky provide social scientists with a framework to understand the disconnect between rising inequality and support for redistribution. They provide progressive activists with a foundation to build more convincing messages. And on top of that, it is written in an engaging and accessible style." -- Nathan J. Kelly, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"In the last day, how many times have you compared yourself to someone else? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone: people compare themselves to others all the time, sometimes almost unconsciously. What’s remarkable is that these social comparisons are often the hidden drivers of how Americans form political attitudes about some of the paramount political issues of our time—issues like inequality, redistribution, and social policy. In this engaging and carefully-researched book, Condon and Wichowsky shine an overdue light on comparisons across social classes—that is, how Americans think about people richer and poorer than themselves—and the surprisingly powerful ways that these views structure our attitudes about inequality and economic policy. If you want to understand why Americans react to inequality in the (sometimes surprising) ways that they do, you need to read this book." -- Nicholas Carnes, Duke University“This book is like no other. It uses cutting-edge social science methods to explain how citizens think about themselves, others, and public policy. In so doing, it provides invaluable insight into the pressing contemporary issues of inequality and redistribution. Condon and Wichowsky will change the way scholars study public opinion formation and how we all think and talk about inequality.” -- James N. Druckman, Northwestern University"Some research in political psychology can seem like angels dancing on the head of a pin from the perspective of scholars focused on large political movements and big policy dilemmas—but not this book. The Economic Other uses elegant experimental and other techniques to explore two findings: how Americans compare themselves to others can increase their desire for greater social and economic equality, but how much they compare themselves to others can dampen that desire. Those are collective phenomena, not merely individual perversity. The combination is intellectually fascinating, politically infuriating, and morally disturbing—Condon and Wichowsky focus our attention on a dynamic that explains a lot of what is most troubling about American politics today." -- Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University"Scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics will value the book’s detailed examination of heterogeneity across races and genders." * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *"A timely and necessary piece of scholarship, this book contributes to a rich literature about inequality and the hesitancy to redistribute, opening up many possibilities for future research... This book should be required reading for not only academics, but anyone who wishes to better understand inequality in the United States." * Political Science Quarterly *"Condon and Wichowsky add a crucial social-psychological dimension to existing understandings of the roots of American attitudes about economic inequality, and contribute fresh insights on the obstacles that confront political efforts to mitigate inequality. This is a book I recommend highly to public opinion scholars for its theoretical insight and astute methodological blend. But it also deserves to be read widely by scholars interested in how political messages, policy proposals, and institutional reforms can undermine or encourage constructive responses to our economic divide." * Public Opinion Quarterly *Table of Contents1: The Politics of Social ComparisonPart I: Imagining the Economic Other 2: Inequality in the Social Mind 3: Revealing the Social Mind 4: The Disadvantaged Other 5: The Advantaged OtherPart II: Responding to the Economic Other 6: Social Comparison and Status Perceptions 7: Social Comparison and Support for RedistributionPart III: Insulated from Inequality 8: Why Americans Don’t Look Up 9: Why Americans Would Rather Look Down 10: How Looking Up Keeps Us Down 11: The Power of Social Comparison Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While, as the authors argue, to compare is human, a lot goes into which comparisons we make. Whether individuals engage in upward or downward comparison makes a huge difference in how they construct inequality in their minds and their political responses to this inequality. Condon and Wichowsky argue that which comparisons individuals choose to engage in, and which ones they are encouraged to make by the media and the political machinery determines how they react. Their ability to connect the dots between economic trends, social psychology, and politics of identity construction create an engaging book with tremendous salience for the present political moment." * Population and Development Review *"[The Economic Other] explores the central role of social comparison in the politics of inequality, focusing on ways that race and gender determine the nature and impact of cross-class comparisons. . . . [The book] investigates why Americans have not demanded more economic redistribution despite the substantial increases in income inequality. . . . [and] evaluates whether these reinforcing patterns regarding social comparison can be interrupted." * Journal of Economic Literature *“This book offers a wide range of insights and valuable causal inferences, serves as a methodological model that will likely be referenced in the future, and is sufficiently theoretically overabundant that scholars and students will likely be reading and building on it for many years to come.” * Perspectives on Politics *"Why are ordinary citizens so indifferent to socioeconomic inequality? Condon and Wichowsky offer a fresh, brilliant explanation to this central question of our time: the psychology of social comparison. Looking up at the privileged fosters awareness of inequality and support for ameliorating measures, but it is also uncomfortable and, therefore, rare. For emotional self-preservation, people would rather look down at the less fortunate, which undercuts mobilization around inequality. Engagingly written, theoretically sophisticated, and full of fascinating new data, this volume is a stand-out among the many books now examining inequality." -- Andrea Campbell, MIT"It is no longer deniable that social class matters in United States politics. Condon and Wichowsky lay open how it works for the thoughts and behaviors of members of the public. Their careful and lucid analyses show us that in this context of economic inequality, people are often comparing themselves to others whom they perceive to be faring better or worse and that these comparisons matter for our contemporary politics. This is a sophisticated take that maintains a focus on gender and race and treats economic distinctions as the social and political phenomena that they are." -- Katherine J. Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison"Rooted in social-psychological theory and a wealth of data from survey experiments, The Economic Other shines a bright light on a puzzling feature of our times: why soaring economic inequality has not produced a correspondingly strong demand for redistributive action. It shows that cross-class social comparisons importantly shape opinions about redistributive programs. Looking upward at high-income people encourages support for redistribution. But looking upward is uncomfortable and is discouraged by residential segregation, economic anxiety, and misleading media. Most Americans either avoid comparisons or look downward, reassuring themselves but blunting egalitarian impulses. Still, the authors offer some possible cures for this self-reinforcing dynamic of inequality." -- Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University"This is an important book, addressing an important set of questions, using innovative techniques to get answers. Condon and Wichowsky provide social scientists with a framework to understand the disconnect between rising inequality and support for redistribution. They provide progressive activists with a foundation to build more convincing messages. And on top of that, it is written in an engaging and accessible style." -- Nathan J. Kelly, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"In the last day, how many times have you compared yourself to someone else? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone: people compare themselves to others all the time, sometimes almost unconsciously. What’s remarkable is that these social comparisons are often the hidden drivers of how Americans form political attitudes about some of the paramount political issues of our time—issues like inequality, redistribution, and social policy. In this engaging and carefully-researched book, Condon and Wichowsky shine an overdue light on comparisons across social classes—that is, how Americans think about people richer and poorer than themselves—and the surprisingly powerful ways that these views structure our attitudes about inequality and economic policy. If you want to understand why Americans react to inequality in the (sometimes surprising) ways that they do, you need to read this book." -- Nicholas Carnes, Duke University“This book is like no other. It uses cutting-edge social science methods to explain how citizens think about themselves, others, and public policy. In so doing, it provides invaluable insight into the pressing contemporary issues of inequality and redistribution. Condon and Wichowsky will change the way scholars study public opinion formation and how we all think and talk about inequality.” -- James N. Druckman, Northwestern University"Some research in political psychology can seem like angels dancing on the head of a pin from the perspective of scholars focused on large political movements and big policy dilemmas—but not this book. The Economic Other uses elegant experimental and other techniques to explore two findings: how Americans compare themselves to others can increase their desire for greater social and economic equality, but how much they compare themselves to others can dampen that desire. Those are collective phenomena, not merely individual perversity. The combination is intellectually fascinating, politically infuriating, and morally disturbing—Condon and Wichowsky focus our attention on a dynamic that explains a lot of what is most troubling about American politics today." -- Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University"Scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics will value the book’s detailed examination of heterogeneity across races and genders." * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *"A timely and necessary piece of scholarship, this book contributes to a rich literature about inequality and the hesitancy to redistribute, opening up many possibilities for future research... This book should be required reading for not only academics, but anyone who wishes to better understand inequality in the United States." * Political Science Quarterly *"Condon and Wichowsky add a crucial social-psychological dimension to existing understandings of the roots of American attitudes about economic inequality, and contribute fresh insights on the obstacles that confront political efforts to mitigate inequality. This is a book I recommend highly to public opinion scholars for its theoretical insight and astute methodological blend. But it also deserves to be read widely by scholars interested in how political messages, policy proposals, and institutional reforms can undermine or encourage constructive responses to our economic divide." * Public Opinion Quarterly *Table of Contents1: The Politics of Social ComparisonPart I: Imagining the Economic Other 2: Inequality in the Social Mind 3: Revealing the Social Mind 4: The Disadvantaged Other 5: The Advantaged OtherPart II: Responding to the Economic Other 6: Social Comparison and Status Perceptions 7: Social Comparison and Support for RedistributionPart III: Insulated from Inequality 8: Why Americans Don’t Look Up 9: Why Americans Would Rather Look Down 10: How Looking Up Keeps Us Down 11: The Power of Social Comparison Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the US, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhoods. The Gautreaux program was especially designed to help redress this problem. This work shows this unique experiment in racial, social, and economic integration.

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Book SynopsisIn the US, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhoods. The Gautreaux program was especially designed to help redress this problem. This work shows this unique experiment in racial, social, and economic integration.Trade Review"This book's history of Chicago public housing should be required reading for anyone interested in social policy in the United States." - Jens Ludwig, Social Service Review; "[The authors"] work is rightly cited as one of the important precedents in the field.... This is a remarkable, unassailable accomplishment and this book is an important record of their scholarly contribution." - John M. Goering, Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Downey challenges the ideas that schools are engines of inequality and that schools can be effectively transformed to substantially reduce inequality. Having completed some of the most influential recent work on the topic, he shows that most of the inequalities we observe are rooted in skills children do and do not possess on their very first day of school., and the evidence suggests that For the most part, schools keep differences from getting bigger. Schools can only get you part of the way If you want to have to a more equal opportunity structure for kids. If equality of opportunity is your goal, then you have to invest more heavily in solutions outside rather than inside of schools."--Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education equality and policy. How Schools Really Matter offers a much-needed corrective to the assumption that student achievement gaps are the product of woefully inadequate schools and teachers. Downey shows that schools compensate for out of school inequality much more than we give them credit for."--Janice Aurini, University of Waterloo "Downey's book takes on the widely held belief that our public schools are failing our neediest children, most especially children of low-income background. Critics on the left invoke underfunded schools, underqualified and undermotivated teachers, and hyper-segregation; for those on the right, and some on the left, it is the opening for charter schools and vouchers. Wrong, says Downey: our schools, on the whole, lift up poor children, not hold them back, implicating instead inequities experienced over the preschool years and in children's home lives outside of school. Read this important book with an open mind. It could very well change how you--how we all--think about schools and inequality." --Karl Alexander, co-editor of The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss "It's not often that a publication changes the way we think the world works. Communicated in remarkably clear prose, Downey's incisive empirically based analysis reveals that inequality increases significantly when children are out of, not while they are in, school. How School's Really Matter is an eye-opener, as well as a call to action--that is, a more focused endeavor to reduce the large disparities in children's social and physical environments, including those of their early childhood." --William Julius Wilson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Why We Shouldn’t Be Blaming Schools So Much Chapter 1: The Forgotten 87 Percent Herbert Walberg’s outrageous claim Trying to understand how schools matter when you have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla problem Chapter 2: Chickens, Eggs, and Achievement Gaps When do achievement gaps emerge? Scaling matters Why the early years are so important Relative deprivation matters too Conclusion Chapter 3: One Very Surprising Pattern about Schools Soccer coaches and schools Trying to understand how schools matter Seasonal comparisons What do we learn from the few studies that have collected data seasonally? Conclusion Chapter 4: And Now a Second, Even More Surprising Pattern School achievement, growth, and impact Objections Conclusion Part II: A New Way to Think about Schools and Inequality Chapter 5: More Like Reflectors than Generators Schools generating inequality Two examples of schools reflecting broader society What about those high-flying schools? Underestimating early childhood Conclusion: A diminished role for schools, an enhanced role for early childhood Chapter 6: As Helping More than Hurting Schools as compensatory: The weak form Schools as compensatory: The strong form Conclusion Chapter 7: A Frida Sofia Problem Schools and inequality: Stuck within the traditional framing Our value for limited government Fear of “blaming the victim” Gender and the vulnerability of schools Conclusion Chapter 8: The Costly Assumption Rich guys trying to reduce achievement gaps The never-ending quest to reform schools The great distractor So what should we do? Acknowledgments Appendix A: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Datasets (ECLS-K:1998 and ECLS-K:2010) Appendix B: Limitations of Seasonal Comparison Studies Appendix C: How Should Social Scientists Study Schools and Inequality? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Downey challenges the ideas that schools are engines of inequality and that schools can be effectively transformed to substantially reduce inequality. Having completed some of the most influential recent work on the topic, he shows that most of the inequalities we observe are rooted in skills children do and do not possess on their very first day of school., and the evidence suggests that For the most part, schools keep differences from getting bigger. Schools can only get you part of the way If you want to have to a more equal opportunity structure for kids. If equality of opportunity is your goal, then you have to invest more heavily in solutions outside rather than inside of schools."--Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education equality and policy. How Schools Really Matter offers a much-needed corrective to the assumption that student achievement gaps are the product of woefully inadequate schools and teachers. Downey shows that schools compensate for out of school inequality much more than we give them credit for."--Janice Aurini, University of Waterloo "Downey's book takes on the widely held belief that our public schools are failing our neediest children, most especially children of low-income background. Critics on the left invoke underfunded schools, underqualified and undermotivated teachers, and hyper-segregation; for those on the right, and some on the left, it is the opening for charter schools and vouchers. Wrong, says Downey: our schools, on the whole, lift up poor children, not hold them back, implicating instead inequities experienced over the preschool years and in children's home lives outside of school. Read this important book with an open mind. It could very well change how you--how we all--think about schools and inequality." --Karl Alexander, co-editor of The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss "It's not often that a publication changes the way we think the world works. Communicated in remarkably clear prose, Downey's incisive empirically based analysis reveals that inequality increases significantly when children are out of, not while they are in, school. How School's Really Matter is an eye-opener, as well as a call to action--that is, a more focused endeavor to reduce the large disparities in children's social and physical environments, including those of their early childhood." --William Julius Wilson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Why We Shouldn’t Be Blaming Schools So Much Chapter 1: The Forgotten 87 Percent Herbert Walberg’s outrageous claim Trying to understand how schools matter when you have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla problem Chapter 2: Chickens, Eggs, and Achievement Gaps When do achievement gaps emerge? Scaling matters Why the early years are so important Relative deprivation matters too Conclusion Chapter 3: One Very Surprising Pattern about Schools Soccer coaches and schools Trying to understand how schools matter Seasonal comparisons What do we learn from the few studies that have collected data seasonally? Conclusion Chapter 4: And Now a Second, Even More Surprising Pattern School achievement, growth, and impact Objections Conclusion Part II: A New Way to Think about Schools and Inequality Chapter 5: More Like Reflectors than Generators Schools generating inequality Two examples of schools reflecting broader society What about those high-flying schools? Underestimating early childhood Conclusion: A diminished role for schools, an enhanced role for early childhood Chapter 6: As Helping More than Hurting Schools as compensatory: The weak form Schools as compensatory: The strong form Conclusion Chapter 7: A Frida Sofia Problem Schools and inequality: Stuck within the traditional framing Our value for limited government Fear of “blaming the victim” Gender and the vulnerability of schools Conclusion Chapter 8: The Costly Assumption Rich guys trying to reduce achievement gaps The never-ending quest to reform schools The great distractor So what should we do? Acknowledgments Appendix A: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Datasets (ECLS-K:1998 and ECLS-K:2010) Appendix B: Limitations of Seasonal Comparison Studies Appendix C: How Should Social Scientists Study Schools and Inequality? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing detailed economic analysis of the effects of sticker price, tuition discounts, merit and need-based financial aid, and institutional competition, Levine contends that the overall impact from these multiple factors is to limit access to higher education for lower-income students. He takes specific aim at the problem of opaque financial aid and how it serves to heighten inequities in higher education. And he offers an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of two major policies for improving access to college—the various versions of 'free college' and a significant increase (read: doubling) of Pell Grants." * Forbes *"A Problem of Fit [examines] the pricing system in American higher education, exploring the market factors that contribute to its problems....Levine [addresses] barriers to higher education beyond those directly related to pricing, such as excessive levels of student loans, the complexity of the college application process, and difficulties in understanding financial aid award letters." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Levine’s text is a quick and engaging read that we highly recommend. In each chapter, he does a fantastic job of identifying what matters for an audience’s understanding of these complex, interrelated issues and communicates them in a way that is approachable and allows readers to connect the pieces of this big puzzle. Levine’s text captures a high level of nuance that escapes most of the public and many policymakers. As such, this should be a required reading for higher education finance courses and new legislator orientations alike." * Teachers College Record *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader." * Monthly Labor Review (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader. I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with college pricing, as well as to people interested in learning more about the higher education market." * Monthly Labor Review *"If you want to understand the nuances of college affordability, pricing, and finance, this book is for you. Levine has taken an issue that impacts the majority of families going through the college search process and deconstructed its complexity. Whether you are a student, policy maker, or higher education practitioner, this is an important read." -- Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling"Levine combines accessible economic explanations with cogent policy recommendations to frame the challenges facing students and families navigating the complex world of college financing. His forceful critique focuses on analysis and solutions rather than anger and blame, forwarding ideas about targeted new funding and improved communication with the potential to help students enroll at the institutions that will be the best fit for them." -- Sandy Baum, Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Institution of Financial Aid Chapter 2: An Econ 101 View of College Pricing and Financial Aid Chapter 3: The Real Cost of College and Its Worth Chapter 4: Pricing Transparency Chapter 5: Addressing Affordability Chapter 6: Fixing the Pricing System in Higher Education Chapter 7: Other Barriers to College Access Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing detailed economic analysis of the effects of sticker price, tuition discounts, merit and need-based financial aid, and institutional competition, Levine contends that the overall impact from these multiple factors is to limit access to higher education for lower-income students. He takes specific aim at the problem of opaque financial aid and how it serves to heighten inequities in higher education. And he offers an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of two major policies for improving access to college—the various versions of 'free college' and a significant increase (read: doubling) of Pell Grants." * Forbes *"A Problem of Fit [examines] the pricing system in American higher education, exploring the market factors that contribute to its problems....Levine [addresses] barriers to higher education beyond those directly related to pricing, such as excessive levels of student loans, the complexity of the college application process, and difficulties in understanding financial aid award letters." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Levine’s text is a quick and engaging read that we highly recommend. In each chapter, he does a fantastic job of identifying what matters for an audience’s understanding of these complex, interrelated issues and communicates them in a way that is approachable and allows readers to connect the pieces of this big puzzle. Levine’s text captures a high level of nuance that escapes most of the public and many policymakers. As such, this should be a required reading for higher education finance courses and new legislator orientations alike." * Teachers College Record *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader." * Monthly Labor Review (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader. I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with college pricing, as well as to people interested in learning more about the higher education market." * Monthly Labor Review *"If you want to understand the nuances of college affordability, pricing, and finance, this book is for you. Levine has taken an issue that impacts the majority of families going through the college search process and deconstructed its complexity. Whether you are a student, policy maker, or higher education practitioner, this is an important read." -- Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling"Levine combines accessible economic explanations with cogent policy recommendations to frame the challenges facing students and families navigating the complex world of college financing. His forceful critique focuses on analysis and solutions rather than anger and blame, forwarding ideas about targeted new funding and improved communication with the potential to help students enroll at the institutions that will be the best fit for them." -- Sandy Baum, Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Institution of Financial Aid Chapter 2: An Econ 101 View of College Pricing and Financial Aid Chapter 3: The Real Cost of College and Its Worth Chapter 4: Pricing Transparency Chapter 5: Addressing Affordability Chapter 6: Fixing the Pricing System in Higher Education Chapter 7: Other Barriers to College Access Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Affluence to Reflexivity PART I: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES Reflexivity and its Discontents Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity PART II: SEARCHING FOR THE REFLEXIVE WORKER Educational Reproduction Today Topographical Trajectories Distinction and Denigration 'Class' as Discursive and Political Construct Conclusion: Rigid Relations through Shifting Substance Appendix: The Search Process

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with 115 families, the authors look at how parents plan to use this annual cash windfall to build up savings, go back to school, and send their kids to college.Trade Review"Humanizes the working poor in an unforgettable way." The Kansas City Star "An important contribution to poverty policy scholarship." -- Vanessa D. Wells Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "It's Not Like I'm Poor inspires one to wonder whether there are existing educational interventions that, with changes to their delivery method, might lead to better experiences and outcomes for children and families... Not only did their work dispel many of the negative stereotypes of welfare-reliant mothers and present an honest picture of the financial realities these families faced, it also helped forecast the relative hardships families would face when the effects of welfare reform took shape." -- Celia J. Gomez Harvard Educational ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Family Budgets: Staying in the Black, Slipping into the Red 2. Tax Time 3. The New Regime through the Lens of the Old 4. Beyond Living Paycheck to Paycheck 5. "Debt--I Am Hoping to Eliminate That Word!" 6. Capitalizing on the Promise of the EITC Appendix A: Introduction to Boston and the Research Project Appendix B: Qualitative Interview Guide Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with 115 families, the authors look at how parents plan to use this annual cash windfall to build up savings, go back to school, and send their kids to college.Trade Review"Humanizes the working poor in an unforgettable way." The Kansas City Star "An important contribution to poverty policy scholarship." -- Vanessa D. Wells Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "It's Not Like I'm Poor inspires one to wonder whether there are existing educational interventions that, with changes to their delivery method, might lead to better experiences and outcomes for children and families... Not only did their work dispel many of the negative stereotypes of welfare-reliant mothers and present an honest picture of the financial realities these families faced, it also helped forecast the relative hardships families would face when the effects of welfare reform took shape." -- Celia J. Gomez Harvard Educational ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Family Budgets: Staying in the Black, Slipping into the Red 2. Tax Time 3. The New Regime through the Lens of the Old 4. Beyond Living Paycheck to Paycheck 5. "Debt--I Am Hoping to Eliminate That Word!" 6. Capitalizing on the Promise of the EITC Appendix A: Introduction to Boston and the Research Project Appendix B: Qualitative Interview Guide Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCompares a range of case studies from around the world in order to clarify the conditions under which and institutions through which economic, social, and cultural rights are progressively realized in practice.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Tables and Boxes List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Making Sense of the Multiple and Complex Pathways by which Human Rights Are Realized (LaDawn Haglund and Robin Stryker) PART ONE: PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ESCR) REALIZATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 1. Do Non--Human Rights Regimes Undermine the Achievement of Economic and Social Rights? (M. Rodwan Abouharb, David L. Cingranelli, and Mikhail Filippov) 2. Linking Law and Economics: Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy (William F. Felice) 3. Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights within the Inter-American System and the United Nations Special Procedures System (Leonardo J. Alvarado) PART TWO: THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC LAW AND COURTS IN ESCR REALIZATION 4. The Impact of Legal Strategies for Claiming Economic and Social Rights (Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks) 5. The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia (Sumudu Atapattu) 6. The Morality of Law: The Case against Deportation of Settled Immigrants (Doris Marie Provine) PART THREE: BEYOND JUDICIAL MECHANISMS AS MEANS TO ESCR REALIZATION 7. Social Movements and the Expansion of Economic and Social Human Rights Advocacy among International NGOs (Paul J. Nelson) 8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India (Shareen Hertel and Susan Randolph) 9. Achieving Rights to Land, Water, and Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Heinz Klug) 10. Social Accountability in the World Bank: How Does It Overlap with Human Rights? (Hans-Otto Sano) PART FOUR: MEASURING ESCR REALIZATION 11. Making the Principle of Progressive Realization Operational: Economic and Social Rights Obligations (Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph) 12. Deepening Our Understanding of Rights Realization through Disaggregation and Mapping: Integrating Census Data and Participatory GIS (Rimjhim Aggarwal and LaDawn Haglund) 13. Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities (Siri Gloppen) Conclusion: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation (Robin Stryker and LaDawn Haglund) Index

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Book SynopsisHow do we reflect upon ourselves and our concerns in relation to society, and vice versa? Human reflexivity works through 'internal conversations' using language, but also emotions, sensations and images. Most people acknowledge this 'inner-dialogue' and can report upon it. However, little research has been conducted on 'internal conversations' and how they mediate between our ultimate concerns and the social contexts we confront. In this book, Margaret Archer argues that reflexivity is progressively replacing routine action in late modernity, shaping how ordinary people make their way through the world. Using interviewees' life and work histories, she shows how 'internal conversations' guide the occupations people seek, keep or quit; their stances towards structural constraints and enablements; and their resulting patterns of social mobility.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Reflexivity: the unacknowledged condition of social life; Part I: 1. Reflexivity's biographies; 2. Reflexivity in action; 3. Reflexivity and working at social positioning; Part II: Introduction: how 'contexts' and 'concerns' shape internal conversations; 4. Communicative reflexives: working at staying-put; 5. Autonomous reflexives: upward and outward bound; 6. Meta-reflexives: moving on; Part III: 7. Internal conversations and their outworks; Conclusion. Reflexivity's future; Methodological appendix.

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Book SynopsisAncient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays outTrade Review"Kamen offers a brief, sensible, inexpensive, and generally persuasive survey of the spectrum of status in Athens... [K]amen's well-annotated, sensible survey is an excellent place for scholars and advanced students to start research on any of these groups."--Choice "[T]his is a stimulating and important book. It will prove indispensable reading for anyone interested in ancient Athenian society and an essential item in reading lists for academic courses. Kamen takes a fresh look at the texture of Athenian society, and given the breadth of material covered she does an excellent job in demonstrating its multifarious nature in a clear and accessible style."--Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Scripta Classica IsraelicaTable of ContentsPreface ix Conventions and Abbreviations xi INTRODUCTION Spectrum of Statuses 1 CHAPTER 1 Chattel Slaves 8 CHAPTER 2 Privileged Chattel Slaves 19 CHAPTER 3 Freedmen with Conditional Freedom 32 CHAPTER 4 Metics (Metoikoi) 43 CHAPTER 5 Privileged Metics 55 CHAPTER 6 Bastards (Nothoi) 62 CHAPTER 7 Disenfranchised Citizens (Atimoi) 71 CHAPTER 8 Naturalized Citizens 79 CHAPTER 9 Full Citizens: Female 87 CHAPTER 10 Full Citizens: Male 97 CONCLUSION Status in Ideology and Practice 109 Bibliography 117 Index Locorum 135 General Index 141

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Book SynopsisA look at the networks of the hidden lives of the internally displacedTrade Review'One of the first extensive studies that brings together information on the methods and networks that individuals and communities have evolved for coping in such situations. Provides a rich, descriptive account' -- International PeacekeepingTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction and Background 1. Africa Angola: 'Deslocados' in the Province of Huambo Burundi: Developing Strategies for Self-Reliance, A Study of Displacement in Four Provinces Sudan: The Unique Challenges of Displacement in Khartoum Uganda: The Resilience of Tradition, Displaced Acholi in Kitgum 2. Asia Afghanistan: Displaced in a Devastated Country Burma: Displaced Karens, Like Water on Khu Leaf Sri Lanka: Developing New Livelihoods in the Shadow of War, Displaced, Relocated and Resettled Muslims 3. Latin America Colombia: Creating Peace Amid the Violence, The Church, NGOs and the Displaced 4. Europe Georgia: Coping by Organizing, Displaced Georgians from Abkhazia Yugoslavia: Displacement from Kosovo, From Patronage to Self-Help Conclusion Contributors Bibliography Burundi Annexes Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in a world with too many graduates fighting for too few graduate jobs; where Deliveroo drivers have PhDs. What’s the point in a university education in a world without enough jobs? Roth writes a sharp critique of the utility of a degree and the functioning of higher education, drawing on his experience as a higher education administrator.Trade Review'Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.' -- Steve Fraser, author of 'Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion''A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and what the reality actually is. Cuts through the cloudiness of our long-held illusions.' -- Alfred Lubrano, author of 'Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Higher Education and Class 2. The Overproduction of Intelligence 3. Class in Transition: Historical Background 4. Underemployment Through the Decades 5. The Educated Underclass 6. Into the Future Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in a world with too many graduates fighting for too few graduate jobs; where Deliveroo drivers have PhDs. What’s the point in a university education in a world without enough jobs? Roth writes a sharp critique of the utility of a degree and the functioning of higher education, drawing on his experience as a higher education administrator.Trade Review'Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.' -- Steve Fraser, author of 'Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion''A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and what the reality actually is. Cuts through the cloudiness of our long-held illusions.' -- Alfred Lubrano, author of 'Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Higher Education and Class 2. The Overproduction of Intelligence 3. Class in Transition: Historical Background 4. Underemployment Through the Decades 5. The Educated Underclass 6. Into the Future Index

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Book SynopsisBroad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.Trade ReviewThe authors, while attentive to necessary statistics and succinct in general historical background, transform the migrating millions from an indistinguishable mass into distinct communities. As Rutkoff and Scott take the reader to Chicago's Bud Billiken Day or Houston's Juneteenth, August Wilson's Pittsburgh, or Walter Mosley's Los Angeles, 'the flashes of the West African spirit that black rural southerners brought north' are rendered visible. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Fly Away is intended for an academic audience and its footnotes display the depth of the research. However, the authors' engaging style also should appeal to the general reader with an interest in African-American cultural history. Charleston Post and Courier 2010 Adds considerably to our understanding of this national exodus... The authors, who teach history at Kenyon College, argue that the black migrants preserved many of their West African roots and customs in the move north, just as they had during the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. These authors stress the cultural freedom afforded by holding on to a vision of Africa as the homeland. In preserving their African roots, the black migrants could take pride in where they came from and in who they were in their new circumstances. Wall Street Journal 2010 Illuminating and impressive cultural history... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 [A] well-written, thought-provoking book. The authors have created a broad-ranging study that is well worth reading. It provides many new ways of thinking about and interpreting the impact of African American migration both on the migrants and the nation. -- Spencer R. Crew Journal of American History 2011Table of ContentsList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Out of Africa2. New Africa3. Negro Capital of the World4. Mules and Men5. Blues Pianos and Tricky Baseballs6. Walkin' Egypt7. Bronzeville's Pinkster Kings8. Dixie Special9. California Dreaming10. Circle UnbrokenNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of original research from the leading scholars in sociology and economics studying mobility and inequality. The volume brings together the state-of-the-art in the field and sets the agenda for future research.Trade Review"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality."—George Farkas, University of California, Irvine"Mobility and Inequality delivers on its promise to integrate sociological and economic approaches to inequality. Leading scholars assess the past and set the future agenda for mobility research."—Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley"In Mobility and Inequality, some of the very best scholars in economics and sociology bring the intergenerational mobility literature forward in ways that conventional journal articles generally are unable to do. By blending these approaches to mobility research, the book brings the two academic fields closer to each other than I ever have seen before."—Anders Björklund, Stockholm University

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of original research from the leading scholars in sociology and economics studying mobility and inequality. The volume brings together the state-of-the-art in the field and sets the agenda for future research.Trade Review"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality."—George Farkas, University of California, Irvine"Mobility and Inequality delivers on its promise to integrate sociological and economic approaches to inequality. Leading scholars assess the past and set the future agenda for mobility research."—Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley"In Mobility and Inequality, some of the very best scholars in economics and sociology bring the intergenerational mobility literature forward in ways that conventional journal articles generally are unable to do. By blending these approaches to mobility research, the book brings the two academic fields closer to each other than I ever have seen before."—Anders Björklund, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsContents @toc4:List of Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii @toc1:I. Overview @toc2:1. Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility 000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan @toc1:II. How Much Mobility? @toc2:2. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? 000 @tocca:Christopher S. Jencks and Laura Tach @toc2:3. How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved? 000 @tocca:Valentino Dardanoni, Gary S. Fields, John Roemer, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta @toc1:III. Mobility Between What? @toc2:4. Does the Sociological Approach to Studying Social Mobility Have a Future? 000 @tocca:David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden @toc2:5. The Economic Basis of Social Class 000 @tocca:John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight @toc2:6. Mobility: What? When? How? 000 @tocca:Andrew Abbott @toc1:IV. Mechanisms of Mobility: Education and the Process of Intergenerational Mobility @toc2:7. Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States 000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim @toc2:8. Family Attainment Norms and Educational Stratification in the United States and Taiwan: The Effects of Parents' School Transitions 000 @tocca:Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang @toc2:9. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making 000 @tocca:Richard Breen and Meir Yaish @toc2:10. Mental Ability--Uni or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects 000 @tocca:David Epstein and Christopher Winship @toc2:11. Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility 000 @tocca:Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro @toc1:V. Contexts of Mobility: Income Dynamics and Vulnerability to Poverty @toc2:12. Estimating Individual Vulnerability to Poverty with Pseudo-Panel Data 000 @tocca:Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim @toc2:13. Happiness Pays: An Analysis of Well Being, Income, and Health Based on Russian Panel Data 000 @tocca:Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar @toc2:14. The Panel-of-Countries Approach to Explaining Income Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda 000 @tocca:Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini Index 000

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Book SynopsisMigration has always been a fundamental human activity, yet little collaboration exists between scientists and social scientists examining how it has shaped past and contemporary societies. This innovative volume brings together sociocultural anthropologists, archaeologists, bioarchaeologists, ethnographers, paleopathologists, and others to develop a unifying theory of migration.Trade ReviewArtfully integrates scholarship on both past and present migration. With its thematic focus on disruption, this volume develops unprecedented nuance in the treatment of migration."" - Graciela S. Cabana, coeditor of Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration""A significant contribution to the social sciences in general and a future staple for archaeologists and anthropologists. Migration and Disruptions demonstrates the importance of collaboration and constructive dialogues between the traditional subfields composing the umbrella title of anthropology."" - Stephen A. Brighton, author of Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach

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Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the latest research on political inequality and its relationship to economic inequalities in North America and Western Europe. Explores why economic inequality has risen in all affluent democracies, yet governments have done little to compensate low- and middle-income citizens.Trade Review'Why have advanced democracies so broadly failed to address the growth of economic inequality? This rich volume brings together a wide range of leading scholars to explore the roles of citizens, elites, government policymakers, and the mass media. This is a vital contribution at a time when many citizens are disillusioned with their governments and, perhaps, with democracy itself.' Martin Gilens, University of California, Los Angeles'Based on cutting-edge research by the leading experts in the field, this book tackles the important political puzzle: why did the redistributive efforts of many governments decline over recent decades even as income inequality increased? Its wide-ranging and illuminating essays will be of interest to everyone concerned about issues of inequality.' Peter A. Hall, Harvard University'Why don't democratic governments respond to what their citizens want? Unequal Democracies fills a massive lacuna in the literature with nuanced answers and sophisticated analyses of cross-national evidence. By distinguishing opinions, preferences, and interests and then considering how they are formed and represented by institutions, the authors transform our understanding of how to promote more equitable policies and polities.' Margaret Levi, Stanford University'This volume offers a set of crucial contributions to our understanding of the political consequences of rising inequality. The editors have put together a truly impressive group of scholars who provide state-of-the-art analysis of the political puzzles linking unequal economies to unequal democracies. A must-read for students of comparative politics.' David Rueda, University of OxfordTable of Contents1. The political puzzle of rising inequality Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson; Part I. Government Responsiveness: 2. Unequal responsiveness and government partisanship in Northwest Europe Ruben Berge Mathisen, Wouter Schakel, Svenja Hense, Lea Elsässer, Mikael Persson and Jonas Pontusson; 3. Democracy, class interests, and redistribution: what do the data say? Mads Andreas Elkjær and Torben Iversen; 4. Measuring political inequality Larry M. Bartels; 5. Why so little sectionalism in the contemporary United States? The under-representation of place-based economic interests Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson and Sam Zacher; Part II. Political Inequality and Representation: 6. On the mechanisms behind unequal representation in legislatures Michael Becher and Daniel Stegmueller; 7. How do the educated govern? Evidence from Spanish mayors Marta Curto-Grau and Aina Gallego; 8. Working-class officeholding in the OECD Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu; 9. Political participation and unequal representation: Addressing the endogeneity problem Ruben Berge Mathisen and Yvette Peters; Part III. Voters and Demand for Redistribution: 10. Fairness reasoning and demand for redistribution Charlotte Cavaillé; 11. The news media and the politics of inequality in advanced democracies J Scott Matthews, Timothy Hicks and Alan M. Jacobs; 12. Deflecting from racism: local talk radio conversations about the murder of George Floyd Katherine J. Cramer; 13. Class and social policy representation Macarena Ares and Silja Häusermann; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn light of the ongoing struggle faced by migrants and refugees trying to access healthcare, this thought-provoking book tackles key issues at the intersection of mobility and health. It critically engages with the bureaucratic, economic and cultural barriers faced by these groups, arguing that a sedentary bias persists in national health systems.

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Book SynopsisFull of political intrigue and corruption, Smouldering Charcoal illustrates the devastating injustice inflicted on society by the ruling classes in postcolonial Malawi. Two couples one poor and working class, the other college-educated and social risers both live under the brutal regime of The Leader. Inside his nation, secret informants are everywhere and any form of protest will get you killed. Following their very different perspectives, both discover that violence and oppression has invaded every level of society. It soon becomes apparent that even after overthrowing an empire, one evil can simply be replaced by another...''Compassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it.'' New InternationalistTrade ReviewCompassionate and real, the book praises the tenacity of the human spirit without glamorizing it. * New Internationalist *

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Book SynopsisThe European Union is founded on the idea of free movement. A generation of West European citizens - referred to by the author as 'Eurostars' - have pioneered a new kind of highly skilled and educated migration.Trade Review"The book is well written and holds ones attention in the analysis as well as the firsthand accounts." (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 September 2011) "Self-consciously and by design not a conventional social science product, Favell's book propels the reader much as a novel would into the private lives of 60 'pioneers of European integration,' educated and highly skilled trailblazers representing the 'small but symbolically powerful population' who have voluntarily left their 'nation-state society' to reap the rewards of denizenship in a big, rich Eurocity in northwest Europe." (American Journal of Sociology, September 2009) "Favell analyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration." (European Urban Knowledge Network Research & Practice Review, February 2009) "In his new book, sociologist Adrian Favell challenges the belief that 'Eurostars' or high-flying expat Europeans, can live successfully anywhere in the EU." (Time Out Amsterdam, January 2009)Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface. Preface. 1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTÉ. A Management Consultant’s Tale. 2. NEW AMSTERDAM. A Logistics Manager’s Tale. 3. LONDON CALLS. A Data Analyst’s Tale. 4. BRUSSELS-BRUSSEL-BRUXELLES. An Architect’s Tale. 5. MIGRATION. An Estate Agent’s Tale. 6. MOBILITY (1). A Social Worker’s Tale. 7. MOBILITY (2). A Landlady’s Tale. 8. SETTLEMENT. A Businessman’s Tale. 9. INTEGRATION (1). A Graphic Designer’s Tale. 10. INTEGRATION (2). A Media Manager’s Tale. 11. LONDON LOVES. A City Broker’s Tale. 12. OLD AMSTERDAM. A Journalist’s Tale. 13. ANOMIE. An IT Consultant’s Tale. 14. EUROPA. Postface. Appendix 1: Summary of interviews. Appendix 2: A note on methodology. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index of interviewees. Index

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Book SynopsisThe European Union is founded on the idea of free movement. A generation of West European citizens - referred to by the author as 'Eurostars' - have pioneered a new kind of highly skilled and educated migration.Trade Review"The book is well written and holds ones attention in the analysis as well as the firsthand accounts." (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 September 2011) "Self-consciously and by design not a conventional social science product, Favell's book propels the reader much as a novel would into the private lives of 60 'pioneers of European integration,' educated and highly skilled trailblazers representing the 'small but symbolically powerful population' who have voluntarily left their 'nation-state society' to reap the rewards of denizenship in a big, rich Eurocity in northwest Europe." (American Journal of Sociology, September 2009) "Favell analyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration." (European Urban Knowledge Network Research & Practice Review, February 2009) "In his new book, sociologist Adrian Favell challenges the belief that 'Eurostars' or high-flying expat Europeans, can live successfully anywhere in the EU." (Time Out Amsterdam, January 2009)Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface. Preface. 1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTÉ. A Management Consultant’s Tale. 2. NEW AMSTERDAM. A Logistics Manager’s Tale. 3. LONDON CALLS. A Data Analyst’s Tale. 4. BRUSSELS-BRUSSEL-BRUXELLES. An Architect’s Tale. 5. MIGRATION. An Estate Agent’s Tale. 6. MOBILITY (1). A Social Worker’s Tale. 7. MOBILITY (2). A Landlady’s Tale. 8. SETTLEMENT. A Businessman’s Tale. 9. INTEGRATION (1). A Graphic Designer’s Tale. 10. INTEGRATION (2). A Media Manager’s Tale. 11. LONDON LOVES. A City Broker’s Tale. 12. OLD AMSTERDAM. A Journalist’s Tale. 13. ANOMIE. An IT Consultant’s Tale. 14. EUROPA. Postface. Appendix 1: Summary of interviews. Appendix 2: A note on methodology. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index of interviewees. Index

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Book SynopsisNew Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including Mimi Sheller and BÃlent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such as Jordan Crandall, Ursula Bieman, GÃlsÃn Karamustafa and Dan Perjovschi this book is a unique document of the cross-disciplinary mobility and power discourse. The specific design, integrating the text and art elements to create a singular dialogue makes for an exciting intellectual and aesthetic experience. Illustrated by a range of studies which examine the regulation and structure of mobility, such as the daily routines of teleworkers, Ukrainian cleaners in Western Europe, the mobility policies of global corporations, and the impact of bicycle policies on public space, New Mobilities Regimes emphasizes the routes and crossroads of migration flows as well as at the interaction of mobility Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Drawings by Dan Perjovschi precede each Part of the book, Introduction, 1. Mobility and the Image-Based Research of Art, 2. The New Mobilities Regimes, Prologue, 3. Agency, Mobility, and the Timespace of Tracking, Work in Motion, 4 An Enterprise in Her Own Four Walls: Teleworking, 5. Aeromobility Regimes in Commercial Aviation: The Mobile Work and Life Arrangements of Flight Crews, 6. Beyond Privilege: Conceptualizing Mobilities Inside Multinational Corporations, 7. One-Way Ticket? International Labor Mobility of Ukrainian Women, Modalities of Migration, 8. Stopover: An Excerpt from the Network of Actor-Oriented Mobility Movements, 9. Lisl Ponger’s Passages – In-between Tourism and Migration, 10. Unawarded Performances, 11. Counter-Geographies in the Sahara, 12. Transnational Migration, Clandestinity, and Globalization – Sub-Saharan Transmigrants in Morocco, Camp Politics, 13. DMZ Embassy: Border Region of Active Intermediate Space, 14. Mobility and the Camp, 15. X-Mission, 16. The Politics of Mobility: Some Insights from the Study of Protest Camps, 17. All Aboard! Exploring the Role of the Vehicle in Contemporary Spatial Inquiry, Spacing Mobilities – Mobilization of Space, 18. Physics of Images – Images of Physics + “Rundum” Photography, 19. Mobility Regimes and Air Travel: Examples from an Indonesian Airport, 20. The Power of Urban Mobility: Shaping Experiences, Emotions, and Selves on a Bike, 21. Experiencing Mobility – Mobilizing Experience, 22. Airport-Studies, Intercontinental, Territorium, 23. Mobile Mediality: Location, Dislocation, Augmentation, Epilogue, 24. Mobility Futures: Moving On and Breaking Through on an Empty Tank, Appendices: Abstracts English/German, Index

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Book SynopsisFrom race, sex, class, and culture, the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies needs theoretical and methodological approaches that allow us to question the organization of social relations that are embedded in digital technologies, and that foster a clearer understanding of how power relations are organized through technologies. Representing a scholarly dialogue among established and emerging critical media and information studies scholars, this volume provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures might be implicated in global economic, political, and social systems of control. Contributors argue that more research needs to explicitly trace the types of uneven power relations that exist in technological spaces. By looking at both the broader political and economicTable of ContentsContents: Brendesha M. Tynes/Joshua Schuschke/Safiya Umoja Noble: Digital Intersectionality Theory and the #Blacklivesmatter Movement – Jessie Daniels: The Trouble With White Feminism: Whiteness, Digital Feminism, and the Intersectional Internet – Myra Washington: Asian/American Masculinity: The Politics of Virility, Virality, and Visibility – Catherine Knight Steele: Signifyin’, Bitching, and Blogging: Black Women and Resistance Discourse Online – Aymar Jean Christian: Video Stars: Marketing Queer Performance in Networked Television – Jenny Ungbha Korn: Black Women Exercisers, Asian Women Artists, White Women Daters, and Latina Lesbians: Cultural Constructions of Race and Gender Within Intersectionality-Based Facebook Groups – David J. Leonard: Grand Theft Auto V: Post-Racial Fantasies and Ferguson Realities – Sarah T. Roberts: Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers’ Dirty Work – Molly Niesen: Love, Inc.: Toward Structural Intersectional Analysis of Online Dating Sites and Applications – Ergin Bulut: The Nation-State in Intersectional Internet: Turkey’s Encounters With Facebook and Twitter – Melissa Villa-Nicholas: The Invisible Information Worker: Latinas in Telecommunications – Miriam E. Sweeney: The Intersectional Interface – Robert Mejia: The Epidemiology of Digital Infrastructure – Tiera Chante’ Tanksley: Education, Representation, and Resistance: Black Girls in Popular Instagram Memes Contributors.

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