Leading Durkheim scholar Steve Lukes's new introduction builds upon Lewis Coser's original -- which places the work in its intellectual and historical context and pinpoints its central ideas and arguments -- by focusing on the text's ...

Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.

The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman Called “the sleeper hit of the publishing season” by The Boston Globe, Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, ...

Now a widely cited classic, this innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value.

"An examination of strategies for effective organizing"--

This second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years ...

It goes well beyond its central concern with the 'science of work' to illuminate everything it discusses, from Marxism to the social uses of photography, from cultural decadence to the impact of the First World War."—Martin Jay, ...

The book argues that our entire economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce.

Smith has explicitly elucidated upon the political economy of that era. This is considered one of the first works that analyzes the free market policies and its effects.

The work describes the historical development of US transportation. Transportation geography has two faces.