Class

Ekonomiska klyftor formar varje aspekt av det moderna livet, från arbetsplatsdynamik och politiska rörelser till berättelserna vi skapar om vem som förtjänar framgång. Dessa böcker undersöker hur sociala hierarkier byggs upp, upprätthålls och utmanas, och utforskar arbetande människors levda erfarenheter tillsammans med de system som skiktar samhället efter rikedom, yrke och möjligheter.

Class Boksammanfattningar

Where We Stand

av bell hooks • 2000

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

4.24

2 000+

🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

Where We Stand

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

av bell hooks 2000 173 sidor

4.24

2 000+ betyg

🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

Chavs

av Owen Jones • 2011

The British working class wasn't only abandoned. It was mocked so the abandonment felt deserved.

4.08

10 000+

🇬🇧 British Class Politics 🏷️ Class Prejudice 🏭 Deindustrialization 🗳️ Political Alienation 📺 Media Representation

Chavs

The British working class wasn't only abandoned. It was mocked so the abandonment felt deserved.

av Owen Jones 2011 256 sidor

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🇬🇧 British Class Politics 🏷️ Class Prejudice 🏭 Deindustrialization 🗳️ Political Alienation 📺 Media Representation

No Shame in My Game

av Katherine S. Newman • 1999

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

3.75

466

🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor 👷 Dignity Of Work 🎭 Stigma And Identity

No Shame in My Game

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

av Katherine S. Newman 1999 416 sidor

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466 betyg

🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor 👷 Dignity Of Work 🎭 Stigma And Identity

A Pelican Introduction

av Mike Savage • 2015

Three hidden currencies now define British class, and only one appears on a payslip.

4.06

500+

🏛️ Class Analysis 🇬🇧 British Society 🎭 Cultural Capital 💰 Wealth Inequality 📈 Social Mobility

A Pelican Introduction

Three hidden currencies now define British class, and only one appears on a payslip.

av Mike Savage 2015 462 sidor

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🏛️ Class Analysis 🇬🇧 British Society 🎭 Cultural Capital 💰 Wealth Inequality 📈 Social Mobility

Let Me Speak

av Domitila Barrios de Chungara • 1978

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

4.25

424

🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

Let Me Speak

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

av Domitila Barrios de Chungara 1978 236 sidor

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🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

The Rage of a Privileged Class

av Ellis Cose • 1993

In the corner office, on the partner track, racism did not disappear. It just went subtle.

3.97

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🏙️ Black Middle Class 💼 Workplace Discrimination 🗣️ Racial Microaggressions 🧠 Stereotype Threat 🔄 Code-Switching

The Rage of a Privileged Class

In the corner office, on the partner track, racism did not disappear. It just went subtle.

av Ellis Cose 1993 210 sidor

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🏙️ Black Middle Class 💼 Workplace Discrimination 🗣️ Racial Microaggressions 🧠 Stereotype Threat 🔄 Code-Switching

The Populist Vision

av Charles Postel • 2007

Populists weren't anti-modern. They demanded public railroads, corporate-scale farms, and Jim Crow.

3.65

201

💰 Gilded Age 🌾 American Populism 🚜 Rural History 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🔗 White Supremacy

The Populist Vision

Populists weren't anti-modern. They demanded public railroads, corporate-scale farms, and Jim Crow.

av Charles Postel 2007 397 sidor

3.65

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💰 Gilded Age 🌾 American Populism 🚜 Rural History 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🔗 White Supremacy

Us Against Them

av Donald R. Kinder • 2009

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

3.97

🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Us Against Them

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

av Donald R. Kinder 2009 354 sidor

3.97

33 betyg

🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Internal Improvement

av John Lauritz Larson • 2001

Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.

3.73

🏛️ Early American Republic 🛤️ Infrastructure Politics 🚂 Railroad Development ⚖️ Federal Vs State Power 🦅 Republican Ideology

Internal Improvement

Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.

av John Lauritz Larson 2001 342 sidor

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🏛️ Early American Republic 🛤️ Infrastructure Politics 🚂 Railroad Development ⚖️ Federal Vs State Power 🦅 Republican Ideology

Categorically Unequal

av Douglas S. Massey • 2007

America engineered its inequality: sort people into categories, then rig the rules.

4.24

134

📊 Social Stratification 🔀 Race And Class 🏛️ Political Economy 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🧠 Social Cognition

Categorically Unequal

America engineered its inequality: sort people into categories, then rig the rules.

av Douglas S. Massey 2007 340 sidor

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📊 Social Stratification 🔀 Race And Class 🏛️ Political Economy 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🧠 Social Cognition

The Global Police State

av William I. Robinson • 2020

The global economy no longer absorbs people. It cages them, and profits.

4.11

112

💰 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📹 Mass Surveillance 🔒 Mass Incarceration 📉 Neoliberalism

The Global Police State

The global economy no longer absorbs people. It cages them, and profits.

av William I. Robinson 2020 208 sidor

4.11

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💰 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📹 Mass Surveillance 🔒 Mass Incarceration 📉 Neoliberalism

Punishing the Poor

av Loïc Wacquant • 2004

Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.

4.21

277

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 💸 Neoliberal Critique 🚫 Criminalizing Poverty 🔒 Carceral State ⚖️ Sociology Of Punishment

Punishing the Poor

Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.

av Loïc Wacquant 2004 384 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 💸 Neoliberal Critique 🚫 Criminalizing Poverty 🔒 Carceral State ⚖️ Sociology Of Punishment

Class and Class Conflict In Industrial Society

av Ralf Dahrendorf • 1959

The engine of class conflict is not property. It's authority. And even socialism couldn't touch it.

4.02

🔥 Conflict Theory 📊 Class Analysis 📚 Weberian Sociology 🔨 Marxist Critique ⚡ Authority And Power

Class and Class Conflict In Industrial Society

The engine of class conflict is not property. It's authority. And even socialism couldn't touch it.

av Ralf Dahrendorf 1959 352 sidor

4.02

45 betyg

🔥 Conflict Theory 📊 Class Analysis 📚 Weberian Sociology 🔨 Marxist Critique ⚡ Authority And Power

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