No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class, Hardcover - Christopher R. Martin

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

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 ...

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

James Wilt exposes the links between the global alcohol industry and capitalism.Publisher: Watkins Media LimitedAuthor(s): James WiltNumber of page...

Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as b...

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

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

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

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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...

In an essay on Biblical Theology published in 1982, Paul Beauchamp points out a striking convergence between a prominent Roman Catholic scholar of ...

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...

Research suggests that between 6 and 14 percent of the US population has been homeless at some point in their lives--a huge number of people. No Lo...

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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...

DescriptionTaking the reader on a journey from discovering a marketable passion to generating an income from it, this book is a practical guide to ...

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...

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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...

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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...

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This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lensPublisher: Canongate Books L...

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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...

This book makes use of ethnographic data to enrich our understanding of the Tea Party, particularly what it was that drew people to the movement. I...

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

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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.

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Publisher: Dedalus LtdAuthor(s): Georges MagnaneTranslator: Jerome FletcherNumber of pages: 288Collection: Dedalus European ClassicsPublication dat...

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

'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston 'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary SupplementPublisher: HarperCollins Publishe...

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Under this new 'science of work' that emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939 fatigue was seen as the ultimate pathology of the working-class body...

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

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An idealistic young man educated in Britain, Obi returns home to Nigeria for a job in the civil service, but finds himself seduced by backhanders a...