Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class, Hardcover

Reducere. DescriptionUntil the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant...

Why do we feel uncomfortable talking about class? Why is it taboo? Why do people often address class through coded terminology like trashy, classy,...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Paul WillisNumber of pages: 215Publication date: 1978Dimensions: 216 x 146 x 12Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. A landmark work in sociology, cultural studies, and ethnography since its publication in 1977, Paul Willis's Learning to Labor is a provocative and...

Publisher: Cinder HousePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 131 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de...

New B-format paperback - The only Monte Carlo gambler to devise an infallible and completely legal system to break the bank.Illustrations: 16 Plate...

Reducere. An anthology of first-person essays which tackle rape, assault and harassment head-on, edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Roxane...

A newly rediscovered gem from the Mass Observation archive.

New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist a...

Reducere. PUPPY GETS HIS OWN BOOK. Kitty's best friend stars in this zany companion to the best selling BAD KITTY.Poor, poor Puppy: Kitty isn't interested in...

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the t...

The bestselling investigation of the vilification of Britain's working class.

A comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in TurkeyPublisher: Pluto PressIllustration(s): 16 figuresNumber o...

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Written when the author was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this title explores the...

Publisher: PM PressAuthor(s): Working Class HistorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 26Cover type: Notebook / blank ...

Reducere. The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in 1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based refundable credit in...

"This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination"Brilliant."--Ken LoachThe stories in this book come...

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden...

Contributor(s): Author: Ian GilbertWhen it comes to the education of children living in poverty there has been a great deal of talk about grit, res...

Explains why the working class was largely missing from the 1989-90 revolution which led to the fall of socialism in Germany. This book documents w...

Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. This title tells the ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Eric A. NordlingerNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 19Cover typ...

85 comfort food recipes, including classic Americana dishes and reimagined favorites, from the celebrated Phoenicia Diner in New York's idyllic Cat...

Reducere. A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson ...

Contributor(s): Author: Frederick EngelsThis is one of the best-known books of Friedrich Engels and his first published one. In this work, Engels a...

Reducere. ``A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their...

Reducere. Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and e...

Reducere. Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, f...

But just as they seem to be important again, a new and insidious snobbery has taken root in society, which is aimed squarely at working-class voters.

The future of the world's ice is at a critical juncture marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers...

Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state ...

Reducere. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuou...

Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new "iconopolitics, " in which words and images lose their connection to reality.The political ...

Reducere. In a scathingly funny account of his time in the Washington swamp, Florida firebrand Matt Gaetz, one of President Trump's key supporters in Congres...

Workers' self-management was one of the unique features of communist Yugoslavia. Goran Music has investigated the changing ways in which blue-colla...

DescriptionKeena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Phil...