This textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the "working class" has been maintained.
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Previous editions published : 4th (2005 : Cambridge Univ. Press), 3rd (2002 : Butterworths), and 1st (1992 : Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II--and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct--and Key…
This text has a practical orientation with a wealth of examples and case studies. Recommended by the CIMA and ACCA, it includes new material on derivatives, treasury management and restructuring.
During the Industrial Revolution, class relations were defined largely through the struggle to control the terms of exchange in the market. Integrating aspects of economic and social history as well as industrial sociology, this book examines the sources of the perception of the…
Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.
Analyzes the impact which the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20 had on British Jewry and on the attitude of British society toward Jews. Both the well-rooted, wealthy Jewry of London's West End and the immigrant communities of the East End and of the i…
Assessment and Accreditation of Prior Learning systems are now widely used in colleges to open up access for potential students by harnessing their prior learning, knowledge and skills. But one major issue, language and literacy, has not yet been adequately addressed, and our ed…
Science as Public Culture joins a growing number of recent studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from 1760 to 1820, and relates it to the rise and subsequent eclipse of forms …
This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and expanded, is clear in outlin…
