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Series: International Library of Sociology
This assured and powerful study explores the condition of the middle classes in Britain today. The authors outline a new theoretical perspective for exploring the middle classes and provide the reader with up-to-date empirical information on the class structure....
Published September 6th 1995 by Routledge
Dangerous Classes provides an authoritative and much needed critical review of British and American debates about the underclass, set in the context of historical material and policy developments....
Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of...
Published September 29th 1993 by Routledge
Hovels to Highrise traces how governments in five European countries became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high density concrete estates. As the book considers each country's housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and...
Published April 14th 1993 by Routledge
Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge
Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces. Community groups find it difficult to gain access to the political system. Ethnic minorities strive for...
Published June 3rd 1992 by Routledge
Series: International Library of Sociology
This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis. It is the first authoritative account of the momentous changes in the organisation of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record...
Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge
Studies in housing have often concentrated on an abstract institutionalised approach isolated from the broader base of the social sciences. This book is the first to treat housing as a subject of social theory. It provides a critique of current research and theorises housing in relation to...
Published November 6th 1991 by Routledge
This 4th edition has been revised to take account of the onset of world recession and the fall in commodity prices that have brought increasing poverty to some of the world's poorest countries....
Published April 13th 1988 by Routledge
Published November 25th 1987 by Routledge
