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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 SynopsisThis collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed and messy, and ones in which new forms of collective power are being forged on the fly and in the shadow of loftier mainstream spheres. Hashtags are deictic, indexical yet what they point to is themselves, their own dual role in ongoing discourse. Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti.Trade Review«Die Idee dieses Buches ist simpel, aber sehr sinnvoll.» (Katrin Weller, M&K 4/2016)Table of ContentsContents: Nathan Rambukkana: Hashtags as Technosocial Events - Theorizing Hashtag Publics – Axel Bruns/Jean Burgess: Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics – Nathan Rambukkana: From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The Digital Intimacies of Race-Activist Hashtag Publics – Theresa Sauter/Axel Bruns: #auspol: The Hashtag as Community, Event, and Material Object for Engaging with Australian Politics – Jean Burgess/Anne Galloway/Theresa Sauter: Hashtag as Hybrid Forum: The Case of #agchatoz – Daniel Faltesek: Hashtags and Activist Publics: #Time – Aaron S. Veenstra/Narayanan Iyer/Wenjing Xie/Benjamin A. Lyons/Chang Sup Park/Yang Feng: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization – Anna Antonakis-Nashif: Hashtagging the Invisible: Bringing Private Experiences into Public Debate : An #outcry against Sexism in Germany – Carlos D’Andréa/Geane Alzamora/Joana Ziller: Hashtags as Intermedia Agency Resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil – Jenny Ungbha Korn: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off – Stacy Blasiola/Yoonmo Sang/Weiai Wayne Xu: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA – Andy Campbell: Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul’s Drag Race – Amanda Grace Sikarskie: Living the #Quilt Life: Talking about Quiltmaking on Tumblr – Andrew Peck: Jokin’ in the First World: Appropriate Incongruity and the #firstworldproblems Controversy – Anthony Santoro: #RaiderNation: The Digital and Material Identity and Values of a Superdiverse Fan Community – Meredith Clark: Black Twitter: Building Connection through Cultural Conversation – Nia I. Cantey and Cara Robinson: #BlackTwitter: Making Waves as a Social Media Subculture – Magdalena Olszanowski: The 1x1 Common: The Role of Instagram’s Hashtag in the Development and Maintenance of Feminist Exchange – Sylvain Rocheleau/Mélanie Millette: Meta-Hashtag and Tag Co-occurrence: From Organization to Politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere – Brett Bergie and Jaigris Hodson: The Twitter Citizen: Problematizing Traditional Media Dominance in an Online Political Discussion – Sava Saheli Singh: Hashtagging #HigherEd.

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Book SynopsisThis collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed and messy, and ones in which new forms of collective power are being forged on the fly and in the shadow of loftier mainstream spheres. Hashtags are deictic, indexical yet what they point to is themselves, their own dual role in ongoing discourse. Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti.Trade Review«Die Idee dieses Buches ist simpel, aber sehr sinnvoll.» (Katrin Weller, M&K 4/2016)Table of ContentsContents: Nathan Rambukkana: Hashtags as Technosocial Events - Theorizing Hashtag Publics – Axel Bruns/Jean Burgess: Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics – Nathan Rambukkana: From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The Digital Intimacies of Race-Activist Hashtag Publics – Theresa Sauter/Axel Bruns: #auspol: The Hashtag as Community, Event, and Material Object for Engaging with Australian Politics – Jean Burgess/Anne Galloway/Theresa Sauter: Hashtag as Hybrid Forum: The Case of #agchatoz – Daniel Faltesek: Hashtags and Activist Publics: #Time – Aaron S. Veenstra/Narayanan Iyer/Wenjing Xie/Benjamin A. Lyons/Chang Sup Park/Yang Feng: Come Together, Right Now: Retweeting in the Social Model of Protest Mobilization – Anna Antonakis-Nashif: Hashtagging the Invisible: Bringing Private Experiences into Public Debate : An #outcry against Sexism in Germany – Carlos D’Andréa/Geane Alzamora/Joana Ziller: Hashtags as Intermedia Agency Resources before FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil – Jenny Ungbha Korn: #FuckProp8: How Temporary Virtual Communities around Politics and Sexuality Pop Up, Come Out, Provide Support, and Taper Off – Stacy Blasiola/Yoonmo Sang/Weiai Wayne Xu: More than Words: Technical Activist Actions in #CISPA – Andy Campbell: Realism against #Realness: Wu Tsang, #Realness, and RuPaul’s Drag Race – Amanda Grace Sikarskie: Living the #Quilt Life: Talking about Quiltmaking on Tumblr – Andrew Peck: Jokin’ in the First World: Appropriate Incongruity and the #firstworldproblems Controversy – Anthony Santoro: #RaiderNation: The Digital and Material Identity and Values of a Superdiverse Fan Community – Meredith Clark: Black Twitter: Building Connection through Cultural Conversation – Nia I. Cantey and Cara Robinson: #BlackTwitter: Making Waves as a Social Media Subculture – Magdalena Olszanowski: The 1x1 Common: The Role of Instagram’s Hashtag in the Development and Maintenance of Feminist Exchange – Sylvain Rocheleau/Mélanie Millette: Meta-Hashtag and Tag Co-occurrence: From Organization to Politics in the French Canadian Twittersphere – Brett Bergie and Jaigris Hodson: The Twitter Citizen: Problematizing Traditional Media Dominance in an Online Political Discussion – Sava Saheli Singh: Hashtagging #HigherEd.

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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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Book SynopsisThe revised edition of Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. The first edition was the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. The revised edition contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science. The relevance, strengths, and weaknesses of every major method of data collection are explained as they relate to the lived experiences of the Black world. It stands alone as the only textbook that details empirical methods in the service of the collective advancement of Africana peoples.Table of ContentsPreface: Speak to the Posterity – Acknowledgments –Africana Studies and the Science of Knowing – Methodology in Africana Studies Research – Ethics in Research – Research Design – Choosing a Topic, Writing a Question, Reviewing the Literature – Measuring Social Reality – Sampling Procedures – Non-Reactive Methods – Scales and Indexes– Survey Design: Asking Questions – Experimental Design – Qualitative Field Research and Data Analysis – Quantitative Data Analysis – Glossary – Works Cited – Index

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Book SynopsisA Black Woman''s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America traces the journey and transformation of Mildred Sirls, a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked cotton to help her family survive, to Dr. Mildred Pratt, Professor Emerita of Social Work, who, by lifting as she climbed, influenced hundreds of students and empowered a community.As a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and scholar-activist, Mildred lived her core beliefs: she felt that it was important to validate individual human dignity; she recognized the power of determination and discipline as keys to success; and she had a commitment to empowering and serving others for the greater good of society. Such values not only characterized the life that she led, they are exemplified by the legacy she left. A Black Woman''s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor reflects those core values. It celebrates ordinary livTrade Review“A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor is a wonderful and special journey. I encourage others to explore this amazing life story. I’m sure they will enjoy it as much as I did.”—Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor of English, Virginia TechTable of ContentsList of Illustrations – James D. Anderson: Foreword – Acknowledgments –Stephanie Shaw/Menah Pratt-Clarke: Introduction – The Critical Black Feminist Autobiography – Starting After Slavery – Surviving the Great Depression – Segregated and Sharecropping – Black Girlhood – A New Beginning – Pittsburgh and the PhD – Normal University Racism – Black History Project – A Legacy – Travel, Trials, and Triumph – Appendix A: Theodore Pratt’s Curriculum Vitae – Appendix B: Mildred Pratt’s Curriculum Vitae – Index.

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Book SynopsisA Black Woman''s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America traces the journey and transformation of Mildred Sirls, a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked cotton to help her family survive, to Dr. Mildred Pratt, Professor Emerita of Social Work, who, by lifting as she climbed, influenced hundreds of students and empowered a community.As a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and scholar-activist, Mildred lived her core beliefs: she felt that it was important to validate individual human dignity; she recognized the power of determination and discipline as keys to success; and she had a commitment to empowering and serving others for the greater good of society. Such values not only characterized the life that she led, they are exemplified by the legacy she left. A Black Woman''s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor reflects those core values. It celebrates ordinary livTrade Review“A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor is a wonderful and special journey. I encourage others to explore this amazing life story. I’m sure they will enjoy it as much as I did.”—Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor of English, Virginia TechTable of ContentsList of Illustrations – James D. Anderson: Foreword – Acknowledgments –Stephanie Shaw/Menah Pratt-Clarke: Introduction – The Critical Black Feminist Autobiography – Starting After Slavery – Surviving the Great Depression – Segregated and Sharecropping – Black Girlhood – A New Beginning – Pittsburgh and the PhD – Normal University Racism – Black History Project – A Legacy – Travel, Trials, and Triumph – Appendix A: Theodore Pratt’s Curriculum Vitae – Appendix B: Mildred Pratt’s Curriculum Vitae – Index.

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Book SynopsisAre you interested in working with African-American male students to help them succeed beyond the classroom? If so, this book is for you! Capoeira is a martial art created by enslaved Africans in Brazil, and it combines self-defense tactics with dance movements, percussion instruments, freedom songs, sacred rituals, acrobatic maneuvers, and communal philosophies. Through this highly-anticipated follow-up book to Critical Race and Education for Black Males: When Pretty Boys Become Men, Vernon C. Lindsay illustrates how Capoeira can serve as a resource to encourage positive self-awareness, leadership, and social justice activism among African-American males. This book represents thirteen years of Dr. Lindsay's experiences in Capoeira and illustrates how a physical education class evolved into an after-school program aligned with a culturally responsive curriculum. Through research collected at a Chicago elementary school, Capoeira, Black Males, and Social JustTrade Review“In this book, Vernon ‘Leão Preto’ Lindsay asks the Capoeira community to expand the roda to influence social justice movements. This is a must-read for Capoeiristas doing work in schools.”—Mestre Acordeon, United Capoeira Association“Once again, Vernon C. Lindsay has taken bold steps to articulate the physical, mental, and spiritual stamina needed to survive and thrive in uncertain times. His ability to reframe the concept of traditional K-12 physical education for Black youth is noteworthy in a time when physical education is slowly being removed from school curriculum. Such a claim to the necessity of physical education should be considered part and parcel of the process to affirm the humanity of Black youth.”—David Stovall, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago“This book, like the author, is innovative. Vernon C. Lindsay offers Ginga as a creative approach for academicians and practitioners to use in their work with Black males.”—Tony Laing, Director of Men of Color Initiative, University of Wisconsin OshkoshTable of ContentsPreface—My Capoeira Story – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Ginga, Black Males, and Education – Documenting Black Males to Understand Pedagogy and Potential – From Gym Class to the Community – When Black Males Speak – Resistance, School Culture, and Capoeira – Relevance Without Compromise – Appendix – Index.

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Book SynopsisAre you interested in working with African-American male students to help them succeed beyond the classroom? If so, this book is for you! Capoeira is a martial art created by enslaved Africans in Brazil, and it combines self-defense tactics with dance movements, percussion instruments, freedom songs, sacred rituals, acrobatic maneuvers, and communal philosophies. Through this highly-anticipated follow-up book to Critical Race and Education for Black Males: When Pretty Boys Become Men, Vernon C. Lindsay illustrates how Capoeira can serve as a resource to encourage positive self-awareness, leadership, and social justice activism among African-American males. This book represents thirteen years of Dr. Lindsay's experiences in Capoeira and illustrates how a physical education class evolved into an after-school program aligned with a culturally responsive curriculum. Through research collected at a Chicago elementary school, Capoeira, Black Males, and Social JustTrade Review“In this book, Vernon ‘Leão Preto’ Lindsay asks the Capoeira community to expand the roda to influence social justice movements. This is a must-read for Capoeiristas doing work in schools.”—Mestre Acordeon, United Capoeira Association“Once again, Vernon C. Lindsay has taken bold steps to articulate the physical, mental, and spiritual stamina needed to survive and thrive in uncertain times. His ability to reframe the concept of traditional K-12 physical education for Black youth is noteworthy in a time when physical education is slowly being removed from school curriculum. Such a claim to the necessity of physical education should be considered part and parcel of the process to affirm the humanity of Black youth.”—David Stovall, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago“This book, like the author, is innovative. Vernon C. Lindsay offers Ginga as a creative approach for academicians and practitioners to use in their work with Black males.”—Tony Laing, Director of Men of Color Initiative, University of Wisconsin OshkoshTable of ContentsPreface—My Capoeira Story – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Ginga, Black Males, and Education – Documenting Black Males to Understand Pedagogy and Potential – From Gym Class to the Community – When Black Males Speak – Resistance, School Culture, and Capoeira – Relevance Without Compromise – Appendix – Index.

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Book SynopsisComparing Canada and the Americas: From Roots to Transcultural Networks covers the Americas in a comparative perspective spanning from the 19th century to the 21st century. It explores socio-cultural dynamics changing considerably in the Americas, which are progressively shedding their original fascination for Europe and slowly recognizing the importance of Indigenous, Afro-descendants, and immigrant cultures. The Americas have many dynamics in common, such as the presence of shared dualistic paradigms, like civilization/barbarism, which is a synonym for self/others. From the invention of the Nation States to globalization, the valorization of taking roots has transformed into the valorization of the legitimacy of geo-symbolic displacements. A comparative study of Canada, Quebec, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the USA reveals both the exclusions and the inclusions that, in literary, artistic, and media productions as well as political essays, are founded on the oppositioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – The Invention of Nation-States and Founding Paradigms: Exterior/Interior as a Synonym for Barbarism/Civilization – Escaping From Narratives Legitimizing Exclusion – The Contemporary Intercultural, Multicultural, and Transcultural Dynamics – Conclusion: The Surplus of Knowledge.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we can do to achieve a fairer education system.Trade Review“Miseducation would benefit anyone interested in social mobility and education in the UK… Reay’s contribution to debates on education and social background is to personalise everyday working-class experiences of school and university, something usually absent from current discourse. This, combined with statistical evidence of the extent of inequalities, makes for particularly engaging reading.” LSE Review of Books“Incredibly insightful and passionate … Diane Reay really does get class. Mandatory reading for anyone proclaiming greater equity in education.” John Smyth, University of Huddersfield“No one has done more than Diane Reay to confront the complex emotions in living class inequalities in education. Her heartbreaking volume bears damning witness to neoliberalism’s contributions to the injuries of class.“ Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School"Diane Reay's compelling analysis synthesises memoir, a wealth of personal testimonies and statistics to reveal a hidden story of Britain's education system. Her sharply argued book demonstrates why selective education is bad for all of us." Selina Todd, St Hilda's College, Oxford"This searing critique of how schools and universities fail the working class and reproduce inequalities should be at the heart of contemporary debates on education." Andrew Sayer, University of Lancaster“A trenchant portrayal of class processes in twentieth and early twenty-first century England…. a must read for all those interested in educational opportunities, the global economy, and the ways in which working class individuals and collectivities construct and live under conditions of massively intensifying inequalities.“ Lois Weis, State University of New York, University at Buffalo, USA, Author of Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class"Passionate, provocative and deeply troubling, this book examines contemporary working-class education.... should be required reading for politicians of both the left and especially the right." Tim Strangleman, University of Kent"Intellectually compelling and inspiring in the way it systematically exposes the myth of meritocracy in economically unequal societies. It will inspire those who read it to work cooperatively for social justice both in education and society." Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin, School of EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction; Why can’t education compensate for society?; The recent history of class in education; Working-class educational experiences; Class in the classroom; Social Mobility: a problematic solution; The middle and upper classes: Getting the ‘best’ for your own child; Class feeling: Troubling the soul and preying on the psyche; Conclusion; Epilogue: Thinking through class.

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Book SynopsisDeepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between homes and neighbourhoods over the lifespan. This book presents a life course framework for understanding how the changing dynamics of people’s lives influence their residential experiences.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Housing: a life course perspective 3. Households and families 4. Learning and training 5. Employment and money 6. Health, well-being and care 7. Changing places 8. Understanding housing and life course dynamics

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Book SynopsisHow can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as strangers in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean are conversely part of the dominant group. Unlike previous research that compares highly educated Afro-Caribbeans to the broad range of African-Americans, this study holds social-class constant by looking only at successful blacks in the upper-middle-class from both groups. This book finds that African-Americans pursue overachievement strategies of working much harder than others do, while Afro-Caribbeans follow an optimistic job strategy expecting promotions and success. However, African-Americans are more likely to use confrontational strategies if their mobility is blocked. The main cause of these differences is that Afro-Caribbeans grow up in a system where they have many examplTrade ReviewGrey and Janoski have produced a ground-breaking comparative study of mobility among African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans in the U.S. Drawing on both social psychological and historical-structural analysis, they deploy multiple perspectives and methods to examine each populations’ means of understanding and coping with racism. Avoiding the cultural and class biases of previous studies, the authors investigate the unique background and context in which each group is embedded. Then, drawing on symbolic interactionist methods, they analyze interviews which allow them to identify a number of strategies respondents use to work towards success in American society. Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans offers significant advances in theory, methodology, and research design over existing inquiry into racialized populations. In so doing, the book contributes greatly to our understanding of race, culture, group identity, and social stratification. -- Steve Gold, Michigan State UniversityA superb analysis of how variation in the size of the black community accounts for differences in the ways that African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans respond to discrimination. -- Suzanne Model, emerita, University of Massachusetts at AmherstTable of ContentsIntroduction: While Both Are Successful, How Can They Be So Different? 1. The Constraints and Opportunities of Vastly Different Black Histories 2. The Diverse Identities of Black Americans and Caribbeans 3. Crafting Basic Strategies for Success 4. Using More Complex Strategies for Success at Work and in the Public 5. Viewing the Other: Defending Strategies of Success among Fellow Blacks Conclusion and Advice to the Ambitious

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Book SynopsisThe promise of America is that, with ambition and hard work, anyone can rise to the top. But now the promise has been broken, and we've become an aristocracy where rich parents raise rich kids and poor parents raise poor kids. We've been told that the changes are structural, that there's nothing we can do about this. But that doesn't explain why other First World countries are beating us hands down on the issue of mobility. What's different about America is our politics. An ostensibly progressive New Class of comfortably rich professionals, media leaders, and academics has shaped the contours of American politics and given us a country of fixed economic classes. It is supported by the poorest of Americans, who have little chance to rise, an alliance of both ends against the middle that recalls the Red Tories of parliamentary countries. Because they support an aristocracy, the members of the New Class are Tories, and because of their feigned concern for the poor, they are Red Tories. The Way Back explains the revolution in American politics, where political insurgents have challenged the complacent establishment of both parties, and shows how we can restore the promise of economic mobility and equality by pursuing socialist ends through capitalist means.Trade Review"The Way Back makes a persuasive case that social mobility, fundamental to the American Dream, has eroded, and that people both on the left and right need to deal seriously with the problem of inequality. F.H. Buckley marshals tremendous data and insight in a compelling study." --Francis Fukuyama "Inequality and immobility will be the rallying cry from the left as the 2016 elections approach. That's a great reason to put The Way Back at the top of your reading list. F.H. Buckley offers a provocative and important commentary on the underlying problems--dysfunctional schools, barriers to entrepreneurship, a broken immigration system, sclerotic government, special interest politics, and more. He dissects who's to blame, what to do, and what not to do--with scholarship, wit, and insight." --Robert A. Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute "Another excellent book! It is full of marvelously shrewd observation, as well as scholarship, both aimed at subjects of the greatest importance." --Jonathan Clark "The Way Back demonstrates that inequality and immobility are real and serious--and that nominally 'progressive' policies are a big part of the problem. The problem, moreover, is not unintended consequences--but rather intended consequences. With his signature combination of erudition, imagination, and wit, F.H. Buckley has produced a game-changing contribution to the inequality literature." --Christopher DeMuth

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Book SynopsisStruggles for Justice in Canada and Mexico examines Canadian and Mexican communities engaged in collective action to address problems related to the context of aggressive capitalism, which favours economic freedom of the powerful over the needs of people and the planet. The book's several case examples portray income-generating projects; action to promote health, adequate housing, and a safe environment (including resistance to mining); women's resource and advocacy programs; as well as grassroots support organizations and independent organizers.The author gathered stories in six states in the south of Mexico and two provinces in Canada between 2004 and 2010, with follow-up to 2012. Thematically, they centre on oppression and struggles for rights experienced by the poor, women, and Indigenous peoples. The author's case-study method bolsters her narratives by including interviews, observation, and some participant-observation, with analysis that draws on social movement theory from sociology and community organizing theory from social work as well as knowledge from social psychology, liberation theology, popular education, and political science. The book presents the common themes and illustrates the central theories for practitioners in the many fields that promote social justice: social work, social development, health, human rights, environmental protection, and faith-based justice movements, among others. The conclusion presents a framework for conceptualizing social justice practice as a congruent paradigm composed of values, theory, objectives, and practice methods.Table of Contents List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Context of the Struggles ONE: GLOBAL Aggressive Capitalism Responses to Neo-liberalism Oppressed Populations TWO: CANADA The Socio-historical Background Economic Neo-liberalism in Canada Responses to Neo-liberalism in Canada Oppressed Populations THREE: MEXICO The Socio-historical Background Neo-liberalism in Mexico Responses to Neo-liberalism in Mexico Oppressed Populations 2 The Stories of Struggle for Change FOUR: INCOME GENERATION Coffee Co-operatives Other Producer Co-operatives Income Generation Projects with External Support FIVE: HEALTH, HOUSING, AND THE ENVIRONMENT Communities Organizing to Promote Health and Wellness Communities Dealing with Health and Related Matters Communities in Conflict with Canadian Mining Companies SIX: WOMEN'S RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY Women's Resource Projects Women Engaged in Advocacy The Women's Council of the San Cristóbal Diocese in Chiapas, Mexico SEVEN: GRASSROOTS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS AND INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS The Community Development Workshop (TADECO) in Guerrero, Mexico Two Independent Neighbourhood Organizers in Guerrero, Mexico COMPA: Convergence of People's Movements in the Americas 3 Themes and Theories in the Struggles for Justice EIGHT: THE PURPOSES OF THE COLLECTIVE ENDEAVOURS The Challenges of the Context The Motivating Influences NINE: THE NATURE AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE COLLECTIVE WORK The Principles, Objectives, and Commitment to Working Together The Manner of Doing the Work and Structuring the Organizations The Resources, Challenges, and Shared Benefits of the Collective Work TEN: THE MEANS OF MOBILIZING FOR THE COLLECTIVE GOOD The Focus of the Mobilization Activities and the Organizer Roles Aspects of Mobilization Strategy ELEVEN: CHALLENGES, CELEBRATIONS, AND CONCEPTUALIZATIONS Challenges Faced in the Social Mobilization Process Outcomes, Celebration, and Historical Review Overall Conceptualizations for Bringing about Greater Justice CONCLUSION The Interdisciplinary Approach The Ideals, Theory, Objectives, and Practice Methods Thoughts for Further Research My Hopes and Beliefs Appendix: The Case Studies References Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth century, and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. What happened?Jane McAlevey is famous-and notorious-in the American labor movement as the hard-charging organizer who racked up a string of victories at a time when union leaders said winning wasn't possible. Then she was bounced from the movement, a victim of the high-level internecine warfare that has torn apart organized labor. In this engrossing and funny narrative-that reflects the personality of its charismatic, wisecracking author-McAlevey tells the story of a number of dramatic organizing and contract victories, and the unconventional strategies that helped achieve them.Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) argues that labor can be revived, but only if the movement acknowledges its mistakes and fully commits to deep organizing, participatory education, militancy, and an approach to workers and their communities that more resembles the campaigns of the 1930s-in short, social movement unionism that involves raising workers' expectations (while raising hell).Trade ReviewThis book is gripping, funny, sad, and very thought-provoking. Jane McAlevey uses her own experiences in a movement that has been undergoing dramatic changes-within a workforce that has undergone even greater changes-to suggest to the reader the necessity and potential for a transformation of the union movement into a real labor movement. Once I started reading it, there was no stopping. -- Bill Fletcher Jr., author of "They’re Bankrupting Us!" And Twenty Other Myths about UnionsThis book casts a bright light on the problems of American unions. Jane McAlevey gives us an on-the-ground account of the obstacles the union hierarchy throws in the path of a bold and energetic organizing effort that scored a string of brilliant successes before the hierarchy cracked down. We need to read this book and learn its lessons partly for what it tells us is wrong about unions, but also because it demonstrates that good organizers can in fact succeed. That message is heartening because the simple truth is that we can't rebuild a democratic left in the United States without a revived labor movement. -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?Raising Expectations is a breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century. In the battles McAlevey recounts, hardly anyone comes out standing tall. But her story, along with those of so many brave health care workers, fills me with hope. -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and DimedThis book renews my faith that organizing works. It calls for a new kind of unionism and makes a compelling case for a new vision for the American labor movement. In the 'whole worker theory' that McAlevey tested and retested in real life campaigns, all the issues negatively impacting the poor, working and middle class become the cause of unions, not simply wages and narrowly defined workplace conditions. At a time when climate change is wreaking havoc at home and abroad and communities of color are becoming the vital center of progressive social change, this book offers one path to building a movement that can and must tackle many issues. Raising Expectations is so refreshing because it aspires to tell us how we can rebuild a movement that can win. -- Van JonesMcAlevey's message-that unions alone give working people voice at the bargaining table and the ballot box-burns with conviction. She makes for bracing company in interesting times. * The Plain Dealer *McAlevey burns with a passion for the cause -- Keith Richmond * Tribune *McAlevey promotes the concept of 'whole worker' organizing, which seeks to go beyond the 'labor-community' paradigm in a manner that recognizes that workers are rooted in, and not separate from, communities and also recognizes the value of bringing community organizing techniques into the realm of labor and vice versa. * Book News *

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Book Synopsis Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams’ Keywords (1976), this edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Each chapter provides an historical context, a critical analysis of how the keyword has been used in relation to mobility, and a conclusion that proposes future usage or research.Trade Review “This fascinating new volume now unpacks the term through eight keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, mobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. A succinct summary of mobility studies by Noel B. Salazar introduces the volume and its approach: not an all-encompassing list, but a set of keywords that ‘offers a coherent critical perspective on mobility’.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “There is an appealing directness and elegant simplicity in ‘Keywords’ efforts to cut through the increasing verbiage within mobility studies and return to the central concepts that make up the field, to grapple with how these concepts are being contested, reworked, and reimagined on a daily basis within anthropological research, while still pushing the field into new waters. In short, this is a book that every mobility studies scholar or student should not only read but return to time and again.” • Anthropos “The book co-directed by Salazar and Jayaram is a clear introduction to the issue of mobility and its links to several other concepts. Taken in this direction, the chapters open the door to the immeasurable possibilities offered by the mobility paradigm. This paradigm allows us to take a new but significant look at ethnographic situations that affect, in particular, the realities related to immigration. Thus, Keywords of Mobility is a contribution to migration studies that forces the researcher to examine the effects of the encounter between various concepts that transform each other.” • Anthropologie et Sociétés “Grounded in anthropology and informed by trans-disciplinary mobility studies, the authors rely on ethnographic analyses from a refreshing combination of both American and European perspectives… [The volume] is careful in its selection of topics, and contributors are up-to-date in their scholarship and rigorous in the construction of their analyses… [A]s a methodological and theoretical approach to the topic, Keywords of Mobility is unparalleled. It represents an important contribution to the literature on studies of forced migration, and human mobilities more generally, by working toward a common, robust vocabulary.” • Refuge “This book is very enlightening, covering areas of thought and research which are at present clearly on a lively frontier of scholarship… The editors are well placed to take on the task of organizing and introducing this topic – as notions of “mobility” have become increasingly prominent in recent anthropology. Noel B. Salazar has an overview of the field which may well be unmatched in anthropology.” • Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University “The idea of exploring keywords offers a useful intervention into the field of mobilities research, which is especially useful for teaching. The choice of keywords is excellent, and the framing of each chapter is very good. The contributors are up to date on the current literature and debates of interest to the field.” • Mimi Sheller, Drexel University, USATable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Keywords of Mobility: A Critical Introduction Noel B. Salazar Chapter 1. Capital Kiran Jayaram Chapter 2. Cosmopolitanism Malasree Neepa Acharya Chapter 3. Freedom Bartholomew Dean Chapter 4. Gender Alice Elliot Chapter 5. Immobility Nichola Khan Chapter 6. Infrastructure Mari Korpela Chapter 7. Motility Hege Høyer Leivestad Chapter 8. Regime Beth Baker-Cristales Chapter 9. On the Ethnographic Engagement of Keywords Brenda Chalfin Chapter 10. Emergent and Potential Mobilities Ellen R. Judd Notes on Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.Trade Review “Whilst wide-ranging, the diversity of chapters makes this edited volume a pleasure to read. Its strengths lie in the insights it provides for understanding mobility on a number of levels, ranging from questions of space, scale, and time to bodies and materiality… Read this volume for its excellent ethnographic coverage of a complex set of methodological and conceptual challenges at the forefront of mobility research.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “I recommend this book to anyone interested in the field of mobilities and in particular to ethnographers of movement to all of them really, not only to the ones more aligned with anthropology. Also, my bet is that a volume such as this has the potential to become an important handbook for all graduate students chasing after mobile fields and the realms of movement.” • Anthropos “This timely book provides welcome material for reflection on classic, contemporary and future research practices, particularly for anthropologists due to its engagement with the distinctive history of the discipline. The chapters can be read independently, which make them attractive readings for any methodology class. Considering the central role of mobility in ethnographic research, an argument put forward very convincingly in the book, one would hope that these conversations on mobility and anthropology will soon be integrated within the conventional methodology handbooks.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale “A treasury of rich insights into methods on the move that will inspire a new generation of mobility researchers in our burgeoning field.” • Nick van Hear, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford “This book offers a thought-provoking and timely revision of anthropological methods on mobility. The focus these authors assume, fruitfully pushes and fine-tunes methodological engagements with mobility and ethnographic practice.” • Alison Macdonald, University College London “Methodologies of Mobility is a concrete inquiry into how specific research techniques, tightly linked to research questions, can address issues regarding mobility. This work makes a valuable contribution to social science research that concerns itself with how experiences of human movement and stasis are imbued with meaning.” • Kiran C. Jayaram, York College, CUNYTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries
 Noel B. Salazar, Alice Elliot, and Roger Norum Chapter 1. ‘Few are the Roads I Haven’t Travelled’: Mobility as Method in Early Finland-Swedish Ethnographic Expeditions Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch Chapter 2. Inventorying Mobility: Methodology on Wheels 
Hege Høyer Leivestad Chapter 3. Becoming, There? In Pursuit of Mobile Methods Chris Vasantkumar Chapter 4. From Radar Systems to Rickety Boats: Borderline Ethnography in Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’ Ruben Andersson Chapter 5. Idleness as Method: Hairdressers and Chinese Urban Mobility in Tokyo Jamie Coates Chapter 6. Meeting a Friend of a Friend: Snowballing with Mr. Hansen in Naples Hans Lucht Chapter 7. ‘Being There Where?’ Designing Digital-Visual Methods for Moving With/In Iran Shireen Walton Chapter 8. Fixating a Fluid Field: Photography as Anthropology in Migration Research Christian Vium Afterword: Im/mobile Method/ologies Simone Abram Index

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Book Synopsis Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams’ Keywords (1976), this edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Each chapter provides an historical context, a critical analysis of how the keyword has been used in relation to mobility, and a conclusion that proposes future usage or research.Trade Review “This fascinating new volume now unpacks the term through eight keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, mobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. A succinct summary of mobility studies by Noel B. Salazar introduces the volume and its approach: not an all-encompassing list, but a set of keywords that ‘offers a coherent critical perspective on mobility’.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “There is an appealing directness and elegant simplicity in ‘Keywords’ efforts to cut through the increasing verbiage within mobility studies and return to the central concepts that make up the field, to grapple with how these concepts are being contested, reworked, and reimagined on a daily basis within anthropological research, while still pushing the field into new waters. In short, this is a book that every mobility studies scholar or student should not only read but return to time and again.” • Anthropos “The book co-directed by Salazar and Jayaram is a clear introduction to the issue of mobility and its links to several other concepts. Taken in this direction, the chapters open the door to the immeasurable possibilities offered by the mobility paradigm. This paradigm allows us to take a new but significant look at ethnographic situations that affect, in particular, the realities related to immigration. Thus, Keywords of Mobility is a contribution to migration studies that forces the researcher to examine the effects of the encounter between various concepts that transform each other.” • Anthropologie et Sociétés “Grounded in anthropology and informed by trans-disciplinary mobility studies, the authors rely on ethnographic analyses from a refreshing combination of both American and European perspectives… [The volume] is careful in its selection of topics, and contributors are up-to-date in their scholarship and rigorous in the construction of their analyses… [A]s a methodological and theoretical approach to the topic, Keywords of Mobility is unparalleled. It represents an important contribution to the literature on studies of forced migration, and human mobilities more generally, by working toward a common, robust vocabulary.” • Refuge “This book is very enlightening, covering areas of thought and research which are at present clearly on a lively frontier of scholarship… The editors are well placed to take on the task of organizing and introducing this topic – as notions of “mobility” have become increasingly prominent in recent anthropology. Noel B. Salazar has an overview of the field which may well be unmatched in anthropology.” • Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University “The idea of exploring keywords offers a useful intervention into the field of mobilities research, which is especially useful for teaching. The choice of keywords is excellent, and the framing of each chapter is very good. The contributors are up to date on the current literature and debates of interest to the field.” • Mimi Sheller, Drexel University, USATable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Keywords of Mobility: A Critical Introduction Noel B. Salazar Chapter 1. Capital Kiran Jayaram Chapter 2. Cosmopolitanism Malasree Neepa Acharya Chapter 3. Freedom Bartholomew Dean Chapter 4. Gender Alice Elliot Chapter 5. Immobility Nichola Khan Chapter 6. Infrastructure Mari Korpela Chapter 7. Motility Hege Høyer Leivestad Chapter 8. Regime Beth Baker-Cristales Chapter 9. On the Ethnographic Engagement of Keywords Brenda Chalfin Chapter 10. Emergent and Potential Mobilities Ellen R. Judd Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together new research that bridges the domains of stakeholder theory, non-market strategy and social movement theory. Although these three research domains have developed via relatively distinct academic communities, they speak to a common set of phenomena at the intersection of business, markets, civil society, and the state. This collection sets an agenda for a more holistic theory of business and society – a theory that takes seriously the various kinds of stakeholders that make up society and have claims over business, that incorporates the goals and objectives of businesses to survive and thrive, and that places an important role on the process of mobilization and contentious interaction between actors whose goals inherently conflict. Using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, contributors focus on a phenomenon at the intersection of business, civil society, and government. Examining markets shaped by heavy stakeholder involvement and contention, chapters explore topics such as markets for electric vehicles, medical marijuana, municipal drinking water, and cigarettes along with controversial business practice, including employment practices for LGBT workers and racial/ethnic minorities, and working conditions in global supply chains.Trade ReviewResearchers from North America, Europe, and South America present 12 chapters on the relationship between social movement theory, stakeholder theory, and non-market strategy. They consider social movements and organizational theory, including the role of social movements in the development of the electric car industry in California, how social movement organizations impacted the medical marijuana industry, how the impact of a social movement changes over time, and social movement theory’s contribution to understanding activism around corporations and markets; social movements and stakeholders, with discussion of the conditions under which a firm's corporate social responsibility initiatives may lead to a decrease in shareholder value after a negative event, worker organizing campaigns in the US and China, the impact of stakeholder attention and pressure on service quality outcomes of water systems in the US, and the power and influence of stakeholders; and social movements and non-market strategy, including the role of activist and firm organizing in institutional change, the role of different strategies in influencing field-level change, and research on non-market strategy and social movements. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Integrating Research Perspectives on Business and Society; Jocelyn Leitzinger, Brayden King, and Forrest Briscoe 1. Plug Power: Social Movements and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in California, 1995-2012; Sunasir Dutta, Hayagreeva Rao and Ion Bogdan Vasi 2. Negotiating Moral Boundaries: Social Movements and the Strategic (Re)definition of the Medical in Cannabis Markets; Cyrus Dioun 3. Movement-Led Institutional Change: Uncertainty, Networks, and the Diffusion of Contentious Practices in Organizational Fields; Forrest Briscoe and Sean Safford 4. Social Movement Theory’s Contribution to Understanding Activism Around Corporations and Markets; Sarah A. Soule 5. The Negative Relationship Between Event-Specific Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Value; Susan A. Kayser 6. Bridging Social Movement and Industrial Relations Theory: An Analysis of Worker Organizing Campaigns in the U.S. and China; Maite Tapia, Manfred Elfström and Denisse Roca-Servat 7. Not a Drop to Drink? Drinking Water Quality, System Ownership, and Stakeholder Attention; A. Wren Montgomery, Thomas P. Lyon, and Dan Zhao 8. Influence Stakeholders, Influence the World; Michael L. Barnett 9. On Two Sides of the Smoke Screen: How Activist Organizations and Corporations use Protests, Campaign Contributions, and Lobbyists to Influence Institutional Change; Ana M. Aranda and Tal Simons 10. Failure or Success? Defensive Strategies and Piecemeal Change Among Racial Inequalities in the Brazilian Banking Sector; Mario Aquino Alves and Marcus Vinícius Peinado Gomes 11. Non-market Strategy and Social Movements Research: What Are the Gains from Trade?; Thomas P. Lyon Afterword. Broadening Business and Society Research: A Postscript on the Limits of Strategic Action; Michael Lounsbury

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Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialisation, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the United States and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.

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Book Synopsis Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.Trade Review “Whilst wide-ranging, the diversity of chapters makes this edited volume a pleasure to read. Its strengths lie in the insights it provides for understanding mobility on a number of levels, ranging from questions of space, scale, and time to bodies and materiality… Read this volume for its excellent ethnographic coverage of a complex set of methodological and conceptual challenges at the forefront of mobility research.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “I recommend this book to anyone interested in the field of mobilities and in particular to ethnographers of movement to all of them really, not only to the ones more aligned with anthropology. Also, my bet is that a volume such as this has the potential to become an important handbook for all graduate students chasing after mobile fields and the realms of movement.” • Anthropos “This timely book provides welcome material for reflection on classic, contemporary and future research practices, particularly for anthropologists due to its engagement with the distinctive history of the discipline. The chapters can be read independently, which make them attractive readings for any methodology class. Considering the central role of mobility in ethnographic research, an argument put forward very convincingly in the book, one would hope that these conversations on mobility and anthropology will soon be integrated within the conventional methodology handbooks.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale “A treasury of rich insights into methods on the move that will inspire a new generation of mobility researchers in our burgeoning field.” • Nick van Hear, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford “This book offers a thought-provoking and timely revision of anthropological methods on mobility. The focus these authors assume, fruitfully pushes and fine-tunes methodological engagements with mobility and ethnographic practice.” • Alison Macdonald, University College London “Methodologies of Mobility is a concrete inquiry into how specific research techniques, tightly linked to research questions, can address issues regarding mobility. This work makes a valuable contribution to social science research that concerns itself with how experiences of human movement and stasis are imbued with meaning.” • Kiran C. Jayaram, York College, CUNYTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries
 Noel B. Salazar, Alice Elliot, and Roger Norum Chapter 1. ‘Few are the Roads I Haven’t Travelled’: Mobility as Method in Early Finland-Swedish Ethnographic Expeditions Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch Chapter 2. Inventorying Mobility: Methodology on Wheels 
Hege Høyer Leivestad Chapter 3. Becoming, There? In Pursuit of Mobile Methods Chris Vasantkumar Chapter 4. From Radar Systems to Rickety Boats: Borderline Ethnography in Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’ Ruben Andersson Chapter 5. Idleness as Method: Hairdressers and Chinese Urban Mobility in Tokyo Jamie Coates Chapter 6. Meeting a Friend of a Friend: Snowballing with Mr. Hansen in Naples Hans Lucht Chapter 7. ‘Being There Where?’ Designing Digital-Visual Methods for Moving With/In Iran Shireen Walton Chapter 8. Fixating a Fluid Field: Photography as Anthropology in Migration Research Christian Vium Afterword: Im/mobile Method/ologies Simone Abram Index

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Book Synopsis French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement. This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.Trade Review “…this book is a useful guide to Bourdieu’s work. Recommended.” • Choice “In this fine book, Reed-Danahay provides a sensitive and sophisticated analysis of the transformations of the meaning of social space in Bourdieu’s numerous studies. It is recommended reading for all those interested in his work.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “By collecting so many of Bourdieu’s writings on space in one place and presenting them so transparently, Reed-Danahay has produced a valuable reference work. As such, this book will be of interest to any scholar interested in approaching space from a Bourdieusian perspective or deepening their understanding of Bourdieu more generally, and it would serve as a helpful companion to Bourdieu’s original work for scholars of mobility. For well-prepared scholars, Bourdieu and Social Space presents the reader with many tantalizing suggestions of Bourdieu’s unruly theory-in-the-making and acts as an invitation for fresh theorizing on the intersections of space, place, mobility, and society.” • Contemporary Sociology “Deborah Reed-Danahay is an excellent reader and mediator of Bourdieu’s studies and publications. For readers who want one more book that will help them get an even deeper understanding of the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu’s social trajectory and his scientific work, this is an absolute masterpiece.” • Anthropology Book Forum “The book poses relevant questions on the interpretation of Bourdieu’s oeuvre, mobility itself and the development of the European Union…As Reed-Danahay’s work shows, the study of the relationship between physical space and habitus can provide useful new perspectives also for the spatial sciences. Reading this work can help to understand Bourdieu’s approach, making the book’s statements worthy of further reflections. As a geographer, I found Reed-Danahay’s views on the importance of space in Bourdieu’s practice theory particularly useful.” • Térés Társadalom “Explains Bourdieu’s neglected concept of social space, and even takes it to a new level by relating it to migration, mobility and emplacement, as well as to the nation-state and the European Union… destined to become a standard reference work.” • Helena Wulff, Stockholm University “This is an excellent piece of work that is both useful and thoughtful. It addresses much of the corpus of Bourdieu’s work but provides an analysis of this rich and complex material in an accessible manner.” • Vered Amit, Concordia UniversityTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Bourdieu, Social Space, and Mobility Chapter 1. Bourdieu’s World-Making Chapter 2. A Sense of One’s Place Chapter 3. Landscapes of Mobility Chapter 4. The Nation-State and Thresholds of Social Space Chapter 5. The European Union as Social Space Conclusion: Toward an Ethnography of Social Space References Index

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Book Synopsis Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.Trade Review “Readers will be impressed by the diverse range of case studies and detailed evidence from people’s personal lives. Overall, the chapters emphasize the importance of taking a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach to understanding social mobility. Although this is a highly specialized field of study, the topics and chapters are well written and accessible enough to be of value to a wide range of readers…Recommended” • Choice “Whereas many edited books appear fragmented, this book comes across as consistent and well edited…This book fills empirical gaps and provides theoretical nuances, not only to simplistic notions of the current African narratives, but also to our conceptual understanding of social mobility.” • African Studies Review “This is a very important and timely contribution to the study of mobilities and immobilities in Africa. The volume advances our understanding of social positionalities as these intertwine and mediate with wider political and moral economies in contemporary Africa.” • Mattia Fumanti, University of St Andrews “Addresses thorny, contemporary realities and draws on a really thought-provoking theoretical palette in opening up debate. Moving beyond social inequality and linear ideas of social mobility is a sort of manifesto that others will take up.” • David Pratten, University of OxfordTable of Contents Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa Joël Noret Chapter 1. Inequality from up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics Hannah Hoechner Chapter 2. 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa Fawzia Mazanderani Chapter 3. Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger Gabriella Körling Chapter 4. ‘Precarious Prosperity?’ Social Im/mobilities Among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala Laura Camfield and William Monteith Chapter 5. ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’: Gender, Class, and Space in Maputo, Mozambique Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space Benjamin Rubbers Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border Maxim Bolt Chapter 8. Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon Ben Page Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa Joël Noret Appendix I: Sample characteristics Appendix II: Summary of entrepreneurs’ directions of social mobility Index

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Book SynopsisA Financial Times Book of the Year. A clear, readable analysis of the inescapable fact that Generation Y (and subsequent generations) will be poorer than their parents, and how we should pursue other economic paths. If you are part of the 99% – and there is a 99% chance that you are – then you are one of the first generation in living memory who can expect to be poorer than your parents, even as the economy continues to grow. And you could be quite a lot poorer. If we continue as we are going, the civilisation we enjoy today will not last until 2050. Buying their own house is a distant dream for most young people; their wages are failing to keep pace with inflation; and more and more people are having to rely on food banks. Our age is one of chronic anxiety. If the economy is doing so well, how can most people not be doing well? If the pie is growing, why aren't we all getting bigger slices? This book shows what we, the 99%, can do to end mass impoverishment and build a society worth living in: an age of abundance, in which everyone benefits.Trade ReviewIf you are concerned about your future – or your children's future – but would never dream of reading a book about the economy [...] you should read this one! -- Hugh Pym, BBC Health Editor and former BBC Chief Economics CorrespondentPolicy-makers face stiff challenges. 99% will help them to navigate the minefield -- Andrew Harrop, General Secretary of the Fabian SocietyA fascinating and an inspirational book * talkRadio *

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Book Synopsis Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After university and post-graduate education, they relocate to Accra, the capital, hundreds of miles south. They crossed social and physical space and have become cosmopolitan while holding on to tradition and attachment to their home town. This bridge generation are patrons to those living up north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that they use the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.Trade Review “…provides a rich, illuminating account of how a historically rural, economically disenfranchised, and illiterate population in northern Ghana overcame the odds and became part of the Ghanaian urban, cosmopolitan elite in the space of a half generation.” • Adeline Masquelier, Tulane UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Chapter 1. Dagbon in Context Chapter 2. Childhood Home Chapter 3. Getting Educated Chapter 4. Paths to Careers Chapter 5. Living in Between: Patronage and Hybrid Modernity Chapter 6. Conflict at Home, Enflamed from Afar Conclusion Epilogue Glossary References Index

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Book Synopsis French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement. This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.Trade Review “…this book is a useful guide to Bourdieu’s work. Recommended.” • Choice “In this fine book, Reed-Danahay provides a sensitive and sophisticated analysis of the transformations of the meaning of social space in Bourdieu’s numerous studies. It is recommended reading for all those interested in his work.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “By collecting so many of Bourdieu’s writings on space in one place and presenting them so transparently, Reed-Danahay has produced a valuable reference work. As such, this book will be of interest to any scholar interested in approaching space from a Bourdieusian perspective or deepening their understanding of Bourdieu more generally, and it would serve as a helpful companion to Bourdieu’s original work for scholars of mobility. For well-prepared scholars, Bourdieu and Social Space presents the reader with many tantalizing suggestions of Bourdieu’s unruly theory-in-the-making and acts as an invitation for fresh theorizing on the intersections of space, place, mobility, and society.” • Contemporary Sociology “Deborah Reed-Danahay is an excellent reader and mediator of Bourdieu’s studies and publications. For readers who want one more book that will help them get an even deeper understanding of the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu’s social trajectory and his scientific work, this is an absolute masterpiece.” • Anthropology Book Forum “The book poses relevant questions on the interpretation of Bourdieu’s oeuvre, mobility itself and the development of the European Union…As Reed-Danahay’s work shows, the study of the relationship between physical space and habitus can provide useful new perspectives also for the spatial sciences. Reading this work can help to understand Bourdieu’s approach, making the book’s statements worthy of further reflections. As a geographer, I found Reed-Danahay’s views on the importance of space in Bourdieu’s practice theory particularly useful.” • Térés Társadalom “Explains Bourdieu’s neglected concept of social space, and even takes it to a new level by relating it to migration, mobility and emplacement, as well as to the nation-state and the European Union… destined to become a standard reference work.” • Helena Wulff, Stockholm University “This is an excellent piece of work that is both useful and thoughtful. It addresses much of the corpus of Bourdieu’s work but provides an analysis of this rich and complex material in an accessible manner.” • Vered Amit, Concordia UniversityTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Bourdieu, Social Space, and Mobility Chapter 1. Bourdieu’s World-Making Chapter 2. A Sense of One’s Place Chapter 3. Landscapes of Mobility Chapter 4. The Nation-State and Thresholds of Social Space Chapter 5. The European Union as Social Space Conclusion: Toward an Ethnography of Social Space References Index

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Book SynopsisResearch on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication of quality research. This 30th volume features insightful and original papers from the 9th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. Mobility and Inequality Trends begins by illustrating the trajectory of income inequality in the world over the course of recent decades before the second paper makes a crucial distinction between ‘bad’ inequality, which is detrimental to society, and ‘good’ inequality, which is beneficial. Focus then shifts to bad inequality, one paper covering the relationship between intergenerational elasticity and inequality of opportunity, and the second studying the relationship between intergenerational mobility and life satisfaction in Spain. The volume then progresses to defend the use of intermediate views of inequality when constructing indicators of social welfare obtained through the use of average income and the Gini coefficient before investigating the advantage of using a multifaceted approach to income mobility measurement. To conclude Mobility and Inequality Trends presents an intensive exploration of income inequality in China and then studies the effects of the policy measure “Minimum Living Income. Finally, the last paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic stimulus policies.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Explaining Income Inequality Trends: An Integrated Approach; Petra Sauer, Narasimha D. Rao, and Shonali Pachauri Chapter 2. On Measuring “Good” and “Bad” Income Inequality; Gordon Anderson Chapter 3. How much of Intergenerational Immobility can be Attributed to Differences in Childhood Circumstances?; Rafael Carranza Chapter 4. Intergenerational Mobility and Life Satisfaction in Spain; Amaia Palencia-Esteban and Pedro Salas-Rojo Chapter 5. ‘Mingling’ the Gini Index and the Mean Income to Rank Countries by Inequality and Social Welfare; Ivica Urban Chapter 6. A Multifaceted Approach to Earnings Mobility Comparisons; John A. Bishop, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez, and Lester A. Zeager Chapter 7. On Income Inequality in Urban Areas in China during the Period 2002-2013: Comparing the Case of Urban Locals with that of Rural Migrants; Joseph Deutsch, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya, Jacques Silber, and Jing Yang Chapter 8. National vs Regional: Distributional and Poverty Effects of Minimum Income Schemes in Spain; Nuria Badenes Plá and Borja Gambau Chapter 9. COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Stimulus Policies: Evidence from 156 Economies; Xingyuan Yao

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Book Synopsis Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.Trade Review “Readers will be impressed by the diverse range of case studies and detailed evidence from people’s personal lives. Overall, the chapters emphasize the importance of taking a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach to understanding social mobility. Although this is a highly specialized field of study, the topics and chapters are well written and accessible enough to be of value to a wide range of readers…Recommended” • Choice “Whereas many edited books appear fragmented, this book comes across as consistent and well edited…This book fills empirical gaps and provides theoretical nuances, not only to simplistic notions of the current African narratives, but also to our conceptual understanding of social mobility.” • African Studies Review “This is a very important and timely contribution to the study of mobilities and immobilities in Africa. The volume advances our understanding of social positionalities as these intertwine and mediate with wider political and moral economies in contemporary Africa.” • Mattia Fumanti, University of St Andrews “Addresses thorny, contemporary realities and draws on a really thought-provoking theoretical palette in opening up debate. Moving beyond social inequality and linear ideas of social mobility is a sort of manifesto that others will take up.” • David Pratten, University of OxfordTable of Contents Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa Joël Noret Chapter 1. Inequality from up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics Hannah Hoechner Chapter 2. 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa Fawzia Mazanderani Chapter 3. Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger Gabriella Körling Chapter 4. ‘Precarious Prosperity?’ Social Im/mobilities Among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala Laura Camfield and William Monteith Chapter 5. ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’: Gender, Class, and Space in Maputo, Mozambique Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space Benjamin Rubbers Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border Maxim Bolt Chapter 8. Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon Ben Page Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa Joël Noret Appendix I: Sample characteristics Appendix II: Summary of entrepreneurs’ directions of social mobility Index

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Book SynopsisLooking at the FinnishRussian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand the long-term effects of migration a continuing process spanning several generations The Hidden Minority takes a multi-temporal perspective on mobility and belonging. The focus of this ethnographic study is the Russian minority in Finland, which is socially, economically, politically and culturally heterogeneous.The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with 'being hidden or 'hiding oneself. The book explores informants' reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relationship of embodied memory, history, time and a multi-national social space.

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnographic study of the rural idyll, Broadlands explores rurality and the pace of rural life. In sharp contrast to the urban analytical emphasis upon speed, it gives careful thought to stasis, as rural places offer everyday opportunities for very different social situations and behavioural interactions. Based on new and extensive RCUK-funded primary research, Sam Hillyard generates an original, rigorous and thoughtful understanding of everyday rural life in the 21st century. Taking the principles of dramaturgy and rural studies scholarship, Broadlands provides a toolkit to make sense of rural change. It uses ethnography to enhance interactionist dramaturgy via cross-references with new theoretical orientations that emphasise the temporal dynamics of space in a 'knowing capitalism'. Where early dramaturgy stressed formal organisations in shaping roles and identity, Broadlands expands these concepts to include informal and transient organisations and associations. Ultimately, the book advances a new model for grasping the complexity of the rural. For researchers and students ofrural and urban sociology, this is an engaging text that reframes our understanding of rurality.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Thinking About Rurality Chapter 2. Norfolk: The Agrarian Revolution and the Emergence of an Elite Chapter 3. Patterns of Ownership in Modernity Chapter 4. A Village of Three Parts Chapter 5. Village Institutions #1: The School, the Pub and the Church Chapter 6. Village Institutions #2: The Very Model of a Modern Rural Villager Chapter 7. A Tale of Three Villages: Norfolk, 'Economy' Norfolk and Northants Chapter 8. Methodological Note

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an introduction to the concept of social inequality. It provides a theoretical and historical background to ways of approaching this topic and discusses classic and modern theories of stratification. After identifying the key concepts of this topic, the book lays out evidence on the nature and extent of contemporary social and economic inequality. It then considers categorical forms of inequality, notably, race, class, and gender. Finally, the book examines sources of social inequality and discusses political consequences of stratification and different policy responses. Trade Review"Bankston offers a novel approach to understanding stratification by taking the reader through a journey in the evolution of social thought. Each chapter demonstrates how rules of society are altered as we move from hunter-gatherer societies all the way to a post-industrial society." — John C. Kilburn, Jr., Texas A&M international University, USA."Carl Bankston’s Key Concepts and Contemporary Approaches to Structural Inequality gives a succinct overview of the sociology of stratification and of related moral debates. I would recommend the book to anyone wanting to learn more about the subject matter, and it would make an excellent addition to any stratification course." —Bradley Campbell, Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles, USA.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables; Introduction: How We Think about Inequality; 1. Theories of Social Inequality; 2. Key Concepts; 3. The Twenty-First Century Setting; 4. Categorical Inequalities: Arguments and Evidence; 5. What Makes People Unequal?; 6. Politics, Policy, and Stratification; References; Index

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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings-and pizzas-to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged on the city.In a year that has seen a revival of protest in America, here is a riveting account of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession.It Started in Wisconsin includes eyewitness reports by striking teachers, students, and others (such as Wisconsin-born musician Tom Morello), as well as essays explaining Wisconsin's progressive legacy by acclaimed historians. The book lays bare the national corporate campaign that crafted Wisconsin's anti-union legislation and similar laws across the country, and it conveys the infectious esprit de corps that pervaded the protests with original pictures and comics.Trade Review[A] collection of stories from those that participated in one of the most inspiring movements to erupt in the US heartland in decades. Those stories provide the observer from afar with a fairly universal and nuanced look at the daily lives of those involved in organizing, occupying, reporting and otherwise participating in those weeks of popular democracy. Interspersed between the tales of the workers, students, farmers and other protesters are a number of photographs and comics. The inclusion of these graphics truly enhances the overall effect ... .worthwhile and provocative. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *These essays delve into the historical, political, and ideological underpinnings of the 2011 events. [L]ater chapters are meatier, with events set against the backdrop of early-20th-century Wisconsin progressive politics when Governor Robert 'Fighting Bob' LaFollette began the crusade against the dominance of corporate America (at that time, railroads) over government. The book exposes how that same dominance continues today. [W]ill help readers, regardless of their own stance, to understand much of what's at stake in the country's current labor and political battles. -- Carol J. Elsen * Library Journal *Midwest pride of place animates much of the writing, along with awareness of Wisconsin's progressive history, the global context for the Madison protests and a genuine outrage that transcends the particular grievances of public sector union members. If anything, Walker has reawakened a dormant spirit of solidarity. The harvest of the extremism he sowed may be his own undoing. -- David Luhrssen * Express Milwaukee *Convey[s] some deeper understanding and offer[s] important lessons valuable for struggles to come ... will stand as a future reference point for those wishing to get some later handle on what happened in the 'Badger State.' Importantly, several of the key essays provide a deeper backdrop for an understanding of what happened. The massive show of solidarity with those directly affected by the 'budget repair bill' did not come just from police and firefighters exempted from the assault, or from private sector trade union hands. It came from a broader public not directly tied to organized labor. [C]ontains several important perspectives on the state of Wisconsin labor, key for understanding the uprising. -- Allen Ruff * Against the Current *

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Book SynopsisRelentlessly, the wide health gap between different groups of people living in Britain continues to get even wider. This book presents new evidence (which was not available to the government's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health) on the size of the gap, and the extent to which the gap is widening. In particular, new geographical data are presented and displayed in striking graphical form. It challenges whether the government is concerned enough about reducing inequalities and highlights the living conditions of the million people living in the least healthy areas in Britain. It presents explanations for the widening health gap, and addresses the implications of this major social problem. In the light of this evidence the authors put forward social policies which will reduce the health gap in the future. The widening gap synthesises all the information available to date and should be read alongside the report of the evidence presented to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Inequalities in health, The Policy Press, 1999) and by all those concerned with reducing health inequalities. 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"... their analysis of the potential impact of current government policies on inequalities in health is enlightening." BMJ "It makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of health inequality in Britain and provides a useful contibution to the policy debate." Cambridge University Press"When Tony Blair tours the North to show the wide variations within regions as well as between them, and when Alan Milburn declares commitment to tackling inequalites in heart disease as part of making a fairer society generally, then you know something has touched a chord. It is rare for an academic work to have such an effect on media and ministers, but the Widening Gap has done just this." John Nicholson, Chief Executive, UK Public Health Association"... a challenge and a lesson for all who are working to reduce inequalities in health." BMJ"... a brilliant book. ... provides a marvellous template for similar efforts to investigate the worst and best-health million in other countries around the world." International Journal of Epidemiology"The book draws together evidence on social inequalities in health ... there is much in this book to be commended ... it will be widely read and quoted ... The book gives well-deserved attention to ... often overlooked issues." The Lancet"The study was the most comprehensive examination of the geographic distribution of health and life chances in the UK since the Black report and its findings are stark." SPS research.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The health gap; Explaining the gap; Narrowing the gap - the policy debate.

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Book SynopsisThe Acheson Inquiry was the most important government-backed examination into inequalities in health in the past 20 years. However, much of the detailed evidence presented to the Inquiry has not been published - until now. This book presents 17 chapters of evidence commissioned by the Acheson Inquiry to inform their work. It provides a 'state of the art' review, by leading experts, into aspects of inequalities in health among: Mothers/families/children Youth Adults of working age Older people Housing Social environment Poverty and income The NHS Nutrition Education Areas Ethnicity Transport/pollution/material environment Gender Mental health Health-related behaviours Oral health · Inequalities in health: The evidence is important reading for academics in the social and medical sciences, students, medical professionals and people working within the fields of health and community care. 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"... a useful collection of state of the art papers." BMJTable of ContentsIntroduction; A structural plan needed to reduce inequalities of health ~ Peter Townsend; Preface by Sir Donald Acheson; Mother, foetus, infant, child and family: socio-economic inequalities ~ Catherine Law; Youth Patrick West; Adults of working age (16/18 to 65 years) ~ David Blane; Inequalities in health: older people ~ Kay-Tee Khaw; Health inequalities: the place of housing ~ Richard Best; The social environment ~ Richard Wilkinson; Poverty across the life-course and health ~ George Davey Smith; The role of the NHS in tackling inequalities in health ~ Michaela Benzeval and Anna Donald; Tackling inequalities in health and healthcare - the role of the NHS ~ Bobbie Jacobson; Nutrition and health inequalities ~ Michael Nelson; Education and health inequalities ~ Geoff Whitty, Peter Aggletin, Eva Garmarnikow and Paul Tayrer; Geographical inequalities in mortality, morbidity and health-releated behaviour in England ~ Sally Macintyre; Ethnic inequalities in health ~ James Nazroo; Inequalities in health: road transport and pollution ~ Adrian Davis; Inequalities in health related to transport ~ Barbara MacGibbon; Gender ~ Sara Arber; Mental health ~ David Goldberg; Smoking, drinking, physical activity and screening uptake and health inequalities ~ Jane Wardle, Michael Farrell, Melvyn Hillsdon, Martin Jarvis, Stephen Sutton and Margaret Thorogood; Inequalities in oral health ~ Aubrey Sheiham and Richard G. Watt.

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