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  • A Sense of Inequality

    by Wendy Bottero ...
    Series series Transforming Capitalism
    We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people’s lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people’s everyday understandings of inequality? How are understandings of inequality located in everyday concerns, moral values and principles of justice?This book considers what provokes everyday ‘views’ or framings of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Stratification

    Social Division and Inequality

    by Wendy Bottero ...
    Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural identity; the book examines how hierarchy affects ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

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  • The Working Poor

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  • Inside the Wire: An Alternative View of the Vietnam War

    by Tom Allemeier ...
    The majority of American troops in Vietnam were not involved in the shooting war. They did have their issues however. Written over 30 years ago, this series of anecdotes takes you through two years in the life of one such soldier, from being drafted until after being discharged. From the Local Draft Boards to Nixon's War on Drugs, it's all here. ... Read more

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    The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution

    Edited by Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, Audacia Ray ...
    "A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way." —Candida Royalle$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply ... Read more

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  • Silences

    by Tillie Olsen ...
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries, Olsen shows us ... Read more

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  • Educating for Insurgency

    The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty

    by Jay Gillen ...
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  • The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

    Chinese Socialism in Crisis

    by Yiching Wu ...
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  • Shopping for Identity

    The Marketing of Ethnicity

    by Marilyn Halter ...
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