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Tag: Class

What 21 billion Facebook friendships say about the economic ladder in the US

04/08/2022 - Leave a Comment

Meta publicly released information on 21 billion Facebook friendships as part of a research project looking at economic inequality in the United States, the company announced today. Along with new insights …

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Global middle class shrinks for first time since 1990s

18/03/202108/05/2021 - Leave a Comment

The global middle class shrank for the first time in decades last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with almost two-thirds of households in developing economies reporting they suffered a …

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The Ironic State

05/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: What can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can …

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Migration Beyond Capitalism

20/11/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Harshly exploited migrant labour plays a fundamental role in the political economy of contemporary capitalism. The abstract and utopian theorising of many liberals and leftists on the migration question …

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Head Hand Heart

11/09/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known: that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers and cleaners are doing essential work that keeps …

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The Meritocracy Trap

21/08/202021/08/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Even in the midst of runaway economic inequality and dangerous social division, it remains an axiom of modern life that meritocracy reigns supreme and promises to open …

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Split: Class Divides Uncovered

08/05/202008/05/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: In 1990, John Major hailed ‘the classless society’; in 1997, New Labour announced that ‘we’re all middle class now’, yet we live in an age where food …

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