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1. Working Class Comm Ils 122

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   First published in 1998...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Starting School (Routledge Revivals)

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, this book considers the culture of a multi-racial community through the eyes of six children about to start school. Each child is from a different background but all live in the same street in a town in the north of England. Following the children from home into school,...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Childminder (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study in Action Research

   By Brian Jackson, Sonia Jackson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, this book looks at the subject of childminding in Britain at the time it was written. It is based on a national survey that was commissioned by the Social Science Research Council and on action to help childminders funded by the Wates Foundation at Manchester University, UK...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals)

   A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Fatherhood (Routledge Revivals)

   By Brian Jackson

   First published in 1984, this groundbreaking title explores the concept of fatherhood, by following a hundred men who become fathers for the first time. The book is addressed to men who are discovering fatherhood and to women who wish to hear what a man feels and thinks about having a child. Many...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Psychology of Assessment Centers

   Edited by Duncan Jackson, Charles Lance, Brian Hoffman

   Research on the reliability and validity of assessment centers (ACs) has been ongoing for at least 50 years and continues to this day. The assessment center method is a technique or process that is used to assess individual performance and potential. One of the most heavily researched topics...

   Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

   By Brian Jackson, Dennis Marsden

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who were either deterred by the class barriers erected by selective schools and elite universities, or, having broken through them to gain...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
8. Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

   An Education System in Miniature

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a ‘seven plus’ because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them – less...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge