"In a world dominated by capitalist work (labour), working for a wage is the central unavoidable reality of modern social life, and yet, the category of labour remains underdeveloped in social sciences. While waged labour in all its forms, including unemployment and mass poverty…
"Classed Intersections examines the salience, transformation and tension of class analysis at a crucial juncture when class investigation is returning to, and reinventing sociological agendas. The contributors, including both established and emerging academics, examine class as …
"Tracing the way the agrarian myth has re-emerged over the twentieth century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/'difference' lies the …
This book provides a holistic understanding of the complexities of Indian society by analyzing the historical, cultural and political bases of social stratification. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, and political socio…