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Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires...
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A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Called in its subtitle A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair has instead two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters as the novel spins from Miss Pinkerton's academy for young...
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The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been, revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. After a brief scuffle, one of them plunged a knife into his heart. The impact was as profound as the aftershock of Stephen Lawrence's murder more than forty years later. The previous summer Notting Hill had been, convulsed by race...
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In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal emphasis on responsibility, individualism, and entrepreneurship binds people together with the ropes of aspiration. Freedom from Work delves into a world...
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Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and economic inequalities between classes offers an incomplete picture of class dynamics in America, and may not connect with people's lived experiences. In Reading Classes, Barbara Jensen explores the anguish caused by class in our society, identifying classism-or anti–working class prejudice-as a central...
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Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around...
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Deutschland ist ein Land mit zunehmender sozialer Ungleichheit. Hunger und Ernährungsarmut aber gelten in der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Wahrnehmung kaum als Phänomen bundesdeutscher Wirklichkeit. Dieser Beitrag widerspricht dieser Sichtweise und zeigt anhand empirischer Annäherungen: Es gibt Hunger und Ernährungsarmut mitten in unserer vermeintlichen Überflussgesellschaft. Es finden sich kaum Studien, die das mit harten Daten belegen,...
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The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees-called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians-are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, the ordeal of the pilgrimage is no foolish pursuit,...
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Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today's social justice movements.
Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today's most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy;...
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Most people think of class as a ranking systemthe more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power to the capitalist class that owns the factories, businesses,...
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Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they not risen up to demand more from a system that is failing them? In Broke and Patriotic, Francesco Duina contends that the best way to answer these questions is to speak directly to America's...
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In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy, ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle class cultural capital on relatively new academics from the working class, and, iii) narratives that explore the effects of class on longtime academics...
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Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members with different class life experiences tend to approach...
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Nachhaltigkeit stellt die Frage des guten Lebens. Sie meint Resilienz und Lernfähigkeit, um Krisen vorzubeugen oder zu überwinden, die unsere Existenz und ein friedliches Zusammenleben gefährden. In der bisherigen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte hat die soziale Ungleichheit eher eine Randrolle gespielt, dies liegt auch an der Genese des Leitbildes „nachhaltige Entwicklung" auf der internationalen Bühne. Das essential zeigt, warum es keine Nachhaltigkeit...
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Les perceptions publiques de la jeunesse semblent se cristalliser autour de deux figures bien distinctes: d'un cté, une jeunesse ordinaire, dont on dit souvent qu'« il faut bien qu'elle se passe ». Elle est certes parfois turbulente, ou même politisée, mais ses désordres semblent transitoires et, du moins aux yeux d'une partie de la société, légitimes. De l'autre cté, une jeunesse menaçante, issue des classes populaires, qui met en échec...
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When many of us think of the free press, we don't immediately think of massive corporations owned and orchestrated by still larger entities-we think of good and honest journalism. And that is exactly what they want you to think.
It's Not Right-Left, It's Top-Down: The Truth About The Media dives deep into the corporate and political landscape of America's leading news networks. This book includes stories and insights from individuals like:
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Tief greifende soziale Wandlungsprozesse und veränderte Selbstbeschreibungen moderner Gesellschaften – verbunden mit Forderungen nach und Versprechungen von mehr Bildung und lebenslangem Lernen – stellen ein umfangreiches Bündel an Herausforderungen für Kulturelle Bildung und für Soziale Arbeit dar. Der Band greift aktuelle gesellschaftliche und fachwissenschaftliche Entwicklungen und Fragen in diesem Zusammenhang auf, z.B. zur Bedeutung von...
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Meet Money Rock-young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer-in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history-by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic-of a striving African American...
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Based on original historical tables, Northern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871–2021 offers an overview of major long-term population, social composition, employment, and urban concentration trends over 150 years in the region now called "Northern Ontario" (or "Nord de l'Ontario"). David Leadbeater and his collaborators compare Northern Ontario relative to Southern Ontario, as well as detail changes at the district and local levels. They also...
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