White Working Class

Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author dem...

Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised worki...

By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage ...

Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explo...

Reducere. Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. I...

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of worki...

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ni...

Reducere. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement o...

- Photographs of Michael Caine from the camera of Terry O'Neill CBE- Captures Caine across several celebrated roles, from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels t...

Reducere. The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographic...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s, Brownsville, a section of eastern Brooklyn, was a white, predominantly Jewish, wo...

Reducere. In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political p...

Reducere. "Bring It On was years ahead of its time in portraying the insidious nature of cultural appropriation and class conflict, and the way white privile...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Reducere. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

'A sophisticated and passionately written account of the classed and gendered identities of a small group of working-class white women who live in ...

Reducere. In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory ...

Reducere. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon...

Reducere. For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At...

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

Reducere. Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific em...

Reducere. DescriptionLaunched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unex...

Reducere. DescriptionBy 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted Africa...

Reducere. Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in ...

Reducere. Description"War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowers ... but London was black, white, and gray, th...

Reducere. Estrelda Alexander was raised in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, but she knew little of he...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

Reducere. When his wife dies young, Canadian immigrant ironworker, Jim Fulton, is left with four children he hardly knows and a neighborhood of relatives wil...

Are Black people naturally mad at the world? Anissa Danielle Moore examines the experience of Blacks in America through a series of "mad" moments i...

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, worki...

From around 1850, London's street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociabili...

Reducere. "The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied, " writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can." The seven...

A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, ...

Reducere. In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the larg...

Reducere. When does a crisis become a crime?Most importantly, who are the victims? In this investigative tour-de-force, Trey Garrison and Richard McClure del...

A major new work that charts the historical development of a postcolonial settlement that has given rise to a racialized distintion between the "de...

Reducere. DescriptionAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts' westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Andrew J. HazeltonIllustration(s): 10 black & white photographs, 12 tablesNumber of pages: 256Col...

Reducere. Description""In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that ...

Reducere. MAKING OUR OWN HISTORYA User's Guide to Marx's Historical Materialism by Jonathan White As global capitalism lurches from one crisis to the next we...

Reducere. STILL THE NIGHT CALL is about Calem Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's simp...

The definitive guide to raising boys' achievement in secondary schools by leading expert Gary Wilson.What better way to raise boys' achievement tha...

DescriptionBorn to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journal...

Reducere. Alex is an awkward, introverted child growing up in 1970s Berkeley, California - a confusing vortex of shifting values, rampant drug use and social...

Reducere. Explore the Lives and Relationship of the Two Founders of the Democratic PartyTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Andrew Jackson: A Captivatin...

Madge Addy was a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, her story is a truly remarkable one....

DescriptionAcross the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional famil...

A biography focussed history of the working-class men and women who brought fresh ideas to Victorian British society.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Reducere. A "deeply empathetic" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "must-read" (Marion Nestle) that "weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research in...

A ground-breaking history of class struggle and the making of the black working class in South Africa.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s)...

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the e...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most A...

Reducere. The life of Steve Reeves had three major parts: First there was Steve Reeves the ultimate, and in my opinion, incomparable world class bodybuilder....

Reducere. Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey document...

Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans gov...

Reducere. Protestant sermons used theTitanic to condemn the budding consumer society ("We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the...

Reducere. DescriptionAmidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial ident...

Newly updated, the definitive biography of the forty-seventh Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, which examines the fascinating life of...

Jeter Publishing presents a series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history but may not be as well-known as their counterpar...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980...

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the...

The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographic...

We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork an...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention. In that same spirit, illustrator Mar a Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a v...

Reducere. A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherles...

A non-fiction book about the UK Labour/Labor Party, with a strong author biographical elementPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Reg RaceIllustra...

Reducere. Anna & The American Puzzle imagines a near-future America where a surprising combination of wealthy, religious, and social media derived power stru...

Reducere. Organized into four sections, this collection of essays is geared toward activists engaging with the dynamic questions of how to create and support...