A satirical look at Victorian manners recounting the experiences of two finishing school graduates, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

First published in 1899 by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, "The Theory of the Leisure Class" is a classic and important examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society at the end of the 19th century. In this work, Veblen, influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Adam Smith, contends that the evolutionary development of human society is the basis for our modern...

'It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.' - Manchester Guardian, 1870Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting...

Hay momentos en que es posible y quizá necesario reunir textos que han sido escritos recientemente, junto a otros publicados y comentados, en algunos casos, con generosa opinión por lectores y amigos. Este es el caso de estos ensayos y crónicas. En la primera parte, "La comunidad abusada", reuní varios ensayos, especialmente uno sobre el "abuso", que inicia y ordena el conjunto del libro, otro sobre la "memoria", seguido de recuerdos personales...

Durante el estallido social de 2019, la palabra "dignidad" fue ampliamente utilizada por los manifestantes para expresar sus distintas demandas. Históricamente, los sectores populares también la han usado para exigir reconocimiento y protección por parte del Estado. En este libro, a partir de diversas investigaciones realizadas durante los últimos años, se analiza qué significa vivir dignamente para los sectores populares en la actualidad. Estamos...

Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around...

En este testimonio se entrelazan el mito y la historia, el rito y la vida, la historia de salvación y la inmanencia, la religión y la política. Se trata de un trabajo que se atreve a proponer algunas hipótesis de índole multidisciplinaria, con la pretensión de hacer una reconstrucción e interpretación integral, que no busca el desmembramiento de un fenómeno complejo y unitario.

The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain's most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience. Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain's model of 'extractive capitalism' — with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic...

Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of measuring it favored by politicians and academics is unsustainable and is contributing to rising inequality. This timely book provides an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how the term 'social mobility' structures what success means and the impact that has on society. Providing a new holistic approach that encompasses education,...

Evolving the Human Race Game: A Spiritual and Soul-Centered Perspective provides a spiritual framework for evolving one's consciousness as it relates to what author Carroy Ferguson calls the "human race game." Beyond family members, most of us wonder why different and/or specific people from our own and other racial and ethnic groups enter into our lives. Ferguson explains how and why this happens through what he calls the mirror effect. He also introduces...