Working Lives. Essays in Canadian Working-Class History, Hardback - Craig Heron

Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issue...

A fascinating and readable portrait of the working men and women who toiled behind the scenes in the nationally and internationally renowned spa re...

This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written b...

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

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

A novel and highly engaging philosophical analysis of populism and how it represents both a challenge to and promise of renewal for liberal democra...

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A newly rediscovered gem from the Mass Observation archive.

James Connolly was the leader of the Irish Citizen Army. Growing up in terrible poverty in Scotland, he made the fight for the rights of workers hi...

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

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rob BeckettNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 35Cover type: HardbackRe...

Drawn together from hundreds of hours of first-hand interviews, Working Lives is a unique collection of oral testimonies from workers whose stories...

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Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communit...

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...

History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals--it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbi...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a p...

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

This study of working class tourism examines the evolution of the English holiday over two centuries, charting workers forms of travel from 'trampi...

THE SEQUEL TO THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER WORKING CLASS BOY ...Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty LtdAuthor(s): Jimmy BarnesNumber of ...

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 ...

A radically honest and uplifting memoir about defying death and learning to live.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Juno RocheNumber of ...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

Reducere. For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...

This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the ques...

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

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

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

DescriptionBusiness leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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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...

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...

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 No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew O'Hagan)

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

A celebration of working-class voices, bringing together established and emerging writers including Kit de Waal, Malorie Blackman, Cathy Rentzenbri...

The coronavirus pandemic forced work back into the home on a massive scale. The long-held belief that work and home are separate spheres of economi...

Reducere. Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through ...

A football book which is so much more; a portrait of an era of the sport long-gone, when players earned $15 per week and lived and worked alongside...

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...

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in secur...

Examines various aspects of childhood delinquency, from hooliganism, teenage gangs and vandalism to juvenile crime and classroom anarchy. This book...

Reducere. In a friendly and inviting way, this book covers the main topics useful for writing essays that have impact. With the accompanying learning guide, ...