The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies

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Upper, middle or lower? Which class are you? Perhaps you don’t think class exists any more, but Jeremy Seabrook argues that it most certainly does, just in the way that caste still operates in India- even though it is officially outlawed in that country. Hierarchies and rankings have been with us since the top would have too much to lose. And don’t think that’ classed’ is Just a British Phenomenon. It’s alive everywhere. In the US everyone is ‘middle class’ – expect of course those who don’t work, are homeless and poor. They are ‘Underclass’, a fate almost worse than death. This No-Nonsense Guide gives the full picture of how class analysis emerged from earlier categorizations, how it affected and still affects people’s lives even today in our globalized world

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeremy Seabrook

Jeremy Seabrook has written more than 30 books, Including most recently Freedom Unfinished, Children of Other Worlds, Love in a Different Climate and Colonies of the Heart. He has been a teacher, social worker and lecturer, and has written plays for theatre, TV and radio. He has contributed to many journals and newspapers, including the New Internationalist, Third World Network, New Statesman and The Ecologist, and at present writes for The Statesman in Kolkata (Calcutta).

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Title
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170339391
Length
144p., Tables, Bibliography; Index; 19cm
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