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	2.4 Class

	Abercrombie, Nick & Warde, Alan et al Contemporary British Society: a New Introduction to Sociology undergraduate level Polity Press: 04 1994 450pp: Photographs, diagrams, graphs, drawings Dewey class: 301.0941 Covers all aspects of the social structure of modern Britain. It has been updated using recent statistical information and empirical studies. The authors have also introduced new arguments and debates where these have added to the understanding of changes in British society. Paperback ISBN:0 7456 1067 6 Ł12.95 Bainbridge, Beryl The Bottle Factory Outing general level Penguin Books: 1992 192pp 198 x 129 Contains five short stories by Beryl Bainbridge, including "The Bottle Factory Outing". Paperback ISBN:0 14 015696 8 Ł5.99 Belchem, John Industrialization and the Working Class: the English Experience undergraduate, professional level Scolar Press: 1991 288pp 216 x 138 Provides the reader with a wide ranging social history of the English working class from 1750 to 1900, and brings a new perspective to historical debate about the industrial revolution and the making of the English working class. Paperback ISBN:0 85967 891 1 Ł10.95 Bourke, Joanna Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890 1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity undergraduate, postgraduate level Routledge: 11 1993 272pp 216 x 138: 50 tables This textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the "working class" has been maintained. Paperback ISBN:0 415 09898 X Ł13.99 Davies, Andrew Leisure, Gender and Poverty: Working Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1939 undergraduate, professional level Open UP: 03 1992 Dewey class: 942.7082 Series: Themes in the Twentieth Century Covers diversity of working class culture in Salford and Manchester in the early part of the century. The book shows how this culture was shaped by unemployment and poverty, and was refracted by gender. Paperback ISBN:0 335 15637 1 Ł15.99 Edgell, Stephen Class: Key Concept in Sociology undergraduate, professional level Routledge: 09 1993 160pp 198 x 129: Indexes, references Series: Key Ideas This introductory text argues that class remains a key concept in sociology. Edgell examines the work of Marx, Weber, Wright and Goldthorpe and discusses class structures, social mobility, inequality and politics. Paperback ISBN:0 415 06061 3 Ł9.99 Gregson, Nicky & Lowe, Michelle Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain undergraduate, professional level Routledge: 07 1994 This text sets out to investigate the resurgence of demand for waged domestic labour in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s, and the consequent growth of a new "servant" class. Paperback ISBN:0 415 08531 4 Ł14.99 Hopkins, Eric The Rise And Decline of the English Working Classes 1918-1990 general, professional level Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1988 Paperback ISBN:0 297 82081 8 Ł7.99 Raw, Laurence Changing Class Attitudes The British Council: 1995 107 pages 280 x 221 mm British Studies course materials focusing on aspects of class in Britain by using extracts from primary documents, including social, political and cultural commentaries and photographs. ISBN & Price: ISBN 0 86355 169 6 Ł9.95 Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class undergraduate, professional level Penguin Books: 1988 960pp 198 x 129 The author argues that the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political conscience of great vitality. Paperback ISBN:0 14 013603 7 Ł14.00 Veblen, Thorstein The Theory of the Leisure Class undergraduate, general level Penguin: 04 1995 416pp 198 x 129 This classic of economic thought is a critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Among the practices that Veblen satirizes is "conspicuous consumption", a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes. Paperback ISBN:0 14 018795 2 Ł7.99

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