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Featured Categories : Society, Politics & Philosophy : Social Sciences : Sociology : Family & Social Groups : Social Classes

• Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940

  D.J. Taylor

  
  
   

• The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin history)

  E.P. Thompson

  
  
   

• Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: The Return of the Sloane Ranger

  Peter York, Olivia Stewart-Liberty

  
  
   

• The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

  Richard Florida

  
  
   

• The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics)

  Friedrich Engels

  
  
   

• The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale Nota Bene)

  J Rose

  
  In 1906 a famous survey of the reading habits of Labour MPs revealed that their preferences were the Bible, Walter Scott and John Ruskin, with hardly a hint of Karl Marx. Nearly a century later, Jonathan Rose's The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes goes a long way to explaining why. His book is a mammoth survey of the autodidact, self-improving culture that emerged in Britain in the late 18th century and flourished for nearly 200 years through religious tract societies, mechanics institutes, trade union libraries and the Workers' Educational Association, until the end of the Second World War. Using workers' autobiographies, social surveys and opinion polls, Rose has produced a rich compilation of evidence, depicting an elite within the working class suffused with Macaulay, Milton and Shakespeare, and contemptuous of romance fiction, the tabloids and sensationalist melodrama. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Roe argues that this self-taught culture produced a working class wary of Marxism (because it was badly written), but also bored by imperialist adventure tales (because they gestured to a world of which workers knew nothing). It is not always easy to follow Rose in his journey through the working-class canon--he is determined to take us into every corner of his library--but it is worth sticking with him. The revelations from his research are fascinating, and his subtle tilts against fashionable post-modernist readings of reading are funny and well placed.--Miles Taylor.
  
   

• The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift)

  Thorstein Veblen

  
  
   

• Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

  Stella Tillyard

  
  Alive with the details of upper-class life in the 1700s, and sparkling with extracts from the letters of Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox and their offspring, Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion to the Television Series takes the reader on a Grand Tour of their 18th-century experience. Stella Tillyard's completely new text (the series Aristocrats is based on her highly acclaimed book of the same name), breathes intelligence and accessibility. Divided into themed chapters: Beginnings and Marriages; Town Life; Country Life; Travel and Endings, Aristocrats is gorgeously illustrated with informatively captioned paintings, photos of artefacts and stills from the television series. Helpfully, the book kicks off with a Dramatis Personae section, which explains who everyone is, tells us how they relate to each other, what they were like and fits them snugly into their context like the elegant, idiosyncratic pieces of a lavish three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Throughout, Tillyard's affectionately vivid prose combines with the stunning illustrations to recreate the opulence in which the Lennox sisters lived, loved, married, took lovers, raised children, survived scandals, played at architecture and design, and lived high politics.

  A book which combines gossip, art and history to terrific effect. Buy it even if you've read Tillyard's original book. Actually--buy two copies. Keep one and give one to someone you love as a present. --Lisa Gee

  
   

• The Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

  David J. Rothkopf

  
  
   

• Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  
  
   

• The Condition of the Working Class in England (Classics)

  Friedrich Engels

  
  
   

• Self-help (Oxford World's Classics)

  Samuel Smiles

  
  
   

• City of Joy

  Dominique Lapierre

  
  
   

• Class, self, culture (Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism (Paperback))

  BEVERLEY SKEGGS

  
  
   

• The Village Labourer

  J.L. Hammond, Barbara Hammond

  
  
   

• Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global

  Paul Mason

  
  
   

• Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

  Theodore Dalrymple

  
  
   

• Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain

  Ferdinand Mount

  
  
   

• The Middle Class

  Lawrence James

  
  
   

• The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford World's Classics)

  Thorstein Veblen