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Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside (Hardcover): Rebecca Smith Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside (Hardcover)
Rebecca Smith
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Starting with Rebecca Smith's own family history - foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal - Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed. As industry has transformed - mines closing, country estates shrinking, farmers struggling to make profit on a pint of milk, holiday lets increasing so relentlessly that local people can no longer live where they were born - we are led to question the legacy of the countryside in all our lives. This is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the countryside, whose family owes something to a bygone trade, or who is interested in the future of rural Britain.

Work Won't Love You Back - How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Paperback): Sarah Jaffe Work Won't Love You Back - How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Paperback)
Sarah Jaffe
R612 R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Save R135 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Such, Such Were the Joys - A Graphic Novel (Paperback): George Orwell Such, Such Were the Joys - A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
George Orwell; Adapted by Sean Michael Wilson; Illustrated by Jaime Huxtable
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world. A constant critic of power and authority, the roots of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four began to grow in his formative years as a pupil at a strict private school in Eastbourne. His essay Such, Such Were The Joys recounts the ugly realities of the regime to which pupils were subjected in the name of class prejudice, hierarchy and imperial destiny. This graphic novel vividly brings his experiences at school to life. As Orwell earned his place through scholarship rather than wealth, he was picked on by both staff and richer students. The violence of his teachers and the shame he experienced on a daily basis leap from the pages, conjuring up how this harsh world looked through a child's innocent eyes while juxtaposing the mature Orwell's ruminations on what such schooling says about society. Today, as the private school and class system endure, this is a vivid reminder that the world Orwell sought to change is still with us.

The Accidental Duchess - From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle (Hardcover): Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland The Accidental Duchess - From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle (Hardcover)
Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland
R679 R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Save R123 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Life in a castle isn't always a fairytale, as the Duchess of Rutland vividly illustrates in her fascinating, revealing and funny autobiography. When Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her mother's footsteps to marry a farmer of her own. But then she fell in love with David Manners, having no idea that he was heir to one of the most senior hereditary titles in the land. When David succeeded his father, Emma found herself becoming the chatelaine of Belvoir Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland. She had to cope with five boisterous children while faced with a vast estate in desperate need of modernisation and staff who wanted nothing to change - it was a daunting responsibility. Yet with sound advice from the doyenne of duchesses, Duchess 'Debo' of Devonshire, she met each challenge with optimism and gusto, including scaling the castle roof in a storm to unclog a flooding gutter; being caught in her nightdress by mesmerised Texan tourists and disguising herself as a cleaner to watch filming of The Crown. She even took on the castle ghosts . . . At times the problems she faced seemed insoluble yet, with her unstoppable energy and talent for thinking on the hoof, she won through, inspired by the vision and passion of those Rutland duchesses in whose footsteps she trod, and indeed the redoubtable and resourceful women who forged her way, whose homes were not castles but remote farmhouses in the Radnorshire Hills. Vividly written and bursting with insights, The Accidental Duchess will appeal to everyone who has visited a stately home and wondered what it would be like to one day find yourself not only living there, but in charge of its future.

The New Snobbery - Taking on modern elitism and empowering the working class (Hardcover): David Skelton The New Snobbery - Taking on modern elitism and empowering the working class (Hardcover)
David Skelton
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change the direction of the country, but in doing so they have been met with disdain and even abuse from elites in politics, culture and business. They have been derided as uneducated, bigoted turkeys voting for Christmas, as Empire apologists patriotic to the point of delusion. At election time, we hear a lot about 'levelling up the Red Wall'. But when the votes have been counted, what can actually be done to meet the very real concerns of the 'left behind' in the UK's post-industrial towns? In these once vibrant hubs of progress, working-class voters now face the prospect of being minimised or ridiculed in cultural life, economically marginalised and abandoned educationally. In this rousing polemic, David Skelton explores the roots and reality of this new snobbery, calling for an end to the divisive culture war and the creation of a new politics of the common good, empowering workers, remaking the economy and placing communities centre stage. Above all, he argues that we now have a once-in-a-century opportunity to bring about permanent change.

Understanding Economic Inequality - Bigger Pies and Just Desserts (Paperback): Todd A. Knoop Understanding Economic Inequality - Bigger Pies and Just Desserts (Paperback)
Todd A. Knoop
R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the last 25 years, nearly two billion people across the globe have risen out of poverty and income levels have risen worldwide. Yet in the US, the top 1% earn twice the amount of income as the poorest 50% of the population. In the midst of rising prosperity, economic dissatisfaction--driven by the persistent fear felt by many that they are ''falling behind''--is higher than at any point since the 1930s. In Understanding Economic Inequality, the author brings an economist's perspective informed by new, groundbreaking research on inequality from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and political science and presents it in a form that it is accessible to those who want to understand our world, our society, our politics, our paychecks, and our neighbors' paychecks better. As any history of the 21st century would be incomplete without understanding ''the 99% versus the 1%'', the insights provided by the author will prove valuable to any reader. This book also provides the foundation for undergraduate courses on wealth and income inequality, and an essential reading for introductory economics, labor economics, public policy, law, or sociology courses.

American Mojo: Lost and Found - Restoring Our Middle Class Before the World Blows by (Hardcover): Peter D. Kiernan American Mojo: Lost and Found - Restoring Our Middle Class Before the World Blows by (Hardcover)
Peter D. Kiernan
R1,001 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R179 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Consumption, Media And The Global South - Aspiration Contested (Paperback): Mehita Iqani Consumption, Media And The Global South - Aspiration Contested (Paperback)
Mehita Iqani
R150 R117 Discovery Miles 1 170 Save R33 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? Consumption, Media and the Global South presents original research examining key themes in the ways in which consumption in the global south - by elites, the middle classes, and the poor - is discursively constructed in media texts. With the global triumph of capitalist economies and neoliberal values, consumption is increasingly viewed by populations in the global south as both a right to which they are denied access, and once accessed as evidence of an improved life. The ways in which this debate plays out on the stage of the media is an important element of the picture. This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film.

The Sum of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Paperback): Heather McGhee The Sum of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Paperback)
Heather McGhee
R481 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R112 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
His Name Is George Floyd - One man's life and the struggle for racial justice (Paperback): Robert Samuels, Toluse... His Name Is George Floyd - One man's life and the struggle for racial justice (Paperback)
Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
R345 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R75 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist 'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES You know how he died. This is how he lived. Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response? The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to Sao Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life. In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school American football player who ignored his coach's pleas to be more aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in search of a better life in a society determined to write him off based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size of his body and the colour of his skin. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with friends and family members, His Name Is George Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's life and death - from his forebears' roots in slavery to an underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.

AWOL - The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- And How It Hurts Our Country (Paperback):... AWOL - The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- And How It Hurts Our Country (Paperback)
Kathy Roth-Douquet, Frank Schaeffer
R387 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In America, it is increasingly the case that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, the gap between the "all-volunteer military" and the rest of us is widening, and our country faces a dangerous lack of understanding between those in power and those who defend our way of life.

Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions (Hardcover): Various Authors Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R54,774 Discovery Miles 547 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This set of 23 volumes, originally published between 1934 and 1994 shed much light on the history of industrial relations and working-class organisation in the UK. They analyse trade union structure, organization and government and look at the pattern of union activity in the workplace. Containing fascinating insider accounts of developments in British industrial relations they analyse the impact of the changing economic and political climate on trade unions in Europe and use a series of comparative case studies to examine change in the government, growth, mergers, character and bargaining structures of British unions. They provide an introduction to the characteristics and styles of trade unionism in Europe and offer a comprehensive guide to the complex structure and administration of British Trade Unions as well as analysing the relationship between political parties and trade unions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.

Not Quite Right For Us (Paperback): Sharmilla Beezmohun Not Quite Right For Us (Paperback)
Sharmilla Beezmohun; Foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson; Xiaolu Guo, Kerry Hudson, Jay Bernard, …
R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike, edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun and including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aminatta Forna, Xiaolu Guo, Johny Pitts, Rishi Dastidar, Tim Wells and Rafeef Ziadah. This remarkable anthology marks the tenth anniversary of the live-literature organisation co-founded by Sharmilla, Speaking Volumes. Part cri du coeur, part warning shot, part affirmation, this is the book we need now.

A Royal Christmas - How the Royal Family has Celebrated Christmas Through the Ages (Paperback): Jeremy Archer A Royal Christmas - How the Royal Family has Celebrated Christmas Through the Ages (Paperback)
Jeremy Archer
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes' Hugo Vickers A Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, enticingly full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas and conflict in the 20th century, Christmas pastimes, festive feasts, Christmas and the Commonwealth, and many more, to reveal the many ways in which the Royal Family have celebrated the festive season through the ages. Jeremy Archer has delved into the Royal Archives to uncover the personal thoughts of many members of the Royal Family during the Christmas period. What comes over most strongly from Queen Victoria's journals is the importance of family: the joys they shared, the trials they endured, and the carefully-selected gifts they exchanged. Although there is much happiness, tragedy is a common bed-fellow, particularly in earlier times. And conflict is seldom very far away. But this is a celebration - both of an enduring festive season and an extraordinary family. 'An easy to read treat for royal enthusiasts, skilfully assembled to highlight significant episodes in our history from the comic to the tragic informative and enjoyable' Sarah Bradford 'Jeremy Archer has an eye for an anecdote and a clever way of arranging his material. The result is like an enormous bran tub: dip in, and you're sure to find something to keep you entertained' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday

The Redneck Manifesto (Paperback): Jim Goad The Redneck Manifesto (Paperback)
Jim Goad
R490 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

The Tyranny of Merit - Can We Find the Common Good? (Paperback): Michael J. Sandel The Tyranny of Merit - Can We Find the Common Good? (Paperback)
Michael J. Sandel
R469 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R201 (43%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Revealing Britain's Systemic Racism - The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family (Paperback): Kimberley Ducey, Joe... Revealing Britain's Systemic Racism - The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family (Paperback)
Kimberley Ducey, Joe Feagin
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revealing Britain's Systemic Racism applies an existing scholarly paradigm (systemic racism and the white racial frame) to assess the implications of Markle's entry and place in the British royal family, including an analysis that bears on visual and material culture. The white racial frame, as it manifests in the UK, represents an important lens through which to map and examine contemporary racism and related inequities. By questioning the long-held, but largely anecdotal, beliefs about racial progressiveness in the UK, the authors provide an original counter-narrative about how Markle's experiences as a biracial member of the royal family can help illumine contemporary forms of racism in Britain. Revealing Britain's Systemic Racism identifies and documents the plethora of ways systemic racism continues to shape ecological spaces in the UK. Kimberley Ducey and Joe R. Feagin challenge romanticized notions of racial inclusivity by applying Feagin's long-established work, aiming to make a unique and significant contribution to literature in sociology and in various other disciplines.

Research Handbook on Intersectionality (Hardcover): Mary Romero Research Handbook on Intersectionality (Hardcover)
Mary Romero
R6,724 Discovery Miles 67 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Critical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers' and scholar-activists' ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research. A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionality research with other critical practices. Examining the foundational texts that explain historical developments in systems of oppression and interdisciplinary research on marginalized communities, state-of the-art chapters explore the intersections emerging in studies of gender and sexuality, capitalism, white supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, climate emergencies, imperial decline, and public health. Reconsidering the ways in which scholar-activists carry out research, the Research Handbook demonstrates how an intersectional gaze and a continued commitment to social justice moves us closer to producing valuable research and, ultimately, transforming knowledge. Advancing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, this incisive Research Handbook will be an invaluable tool for scholars and researchers hoping to undertake meaningful intersectional research. Its empirical findings will further benefit practitioners tasked with designing intersectional policy.

Having and Being Had (Paperback): Eula Biss Having and Being Had (Paperback)
Eula Biss
R477 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) - The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover): Isabel Wilkerson Caste (Oprah's Book Club) - The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
Isabel Wilkerson
R846 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R203 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Mole People - Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City (Paperback): Jennifer Toth The Mole People - Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City (Paperback)
Jennifer Toth
R467 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.

Selected Works of Pearl Jephcott: Social Issues and Social Research - 5 Volume Set (Hardcover): Pearl Jephcott Selected Works of Pearl Jephcott: Social Issues and Social Research - 5 Volume Set (Hardcover)
Pearl Jephcott
R12,149 Discovery Miles 121 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pearl Jephcott (1900–1980) was a pioneer of sociological research, largely forgotten in recent times, her works paved the way for many of the subsequent developments that were to come in the sociology of gender, women’s’ studies, urban sociology, leisure studies and the sociology of youth. An originator and an early adopter of many research methods, Pearl Jephcott, deserves to be rediscovered. This collection of 5 books, each with a new foreword, were originally published between 1954 and 1971. Including one previously unpublished work from 1954, they are a selection of her most important work and a fascinating record of sociological research in action.

The Devil's Harvest - A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's Central... The Devil's Harvest - A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's Central Valley (Paperback)
Jessica Garrison
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stakes Is High - Race, Faith, and Hope for America (Paperback): Michael W Waters Stakes Is High - Race, Faith, and Hope for America (Paperback)
Michael W Waters
R360 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Save R64 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Children of the State - Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System (Hardcover): Jeff Hobbs Children of the State - Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System (Hardcover)
Jeff Hobbs
R781 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R128 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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