English Working Class

Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she’s a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city’s wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York’s underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found, if not love, then something like it with her bootlegger sweetheart, Leo.

In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices. We are invited into homes and offices, where we recognize the crushing pressure of unraveling plans, and the healing warmth of being together. Moreover, we witness the constant planning that goes into a "good" day, often with the aid of phones and apps.

It’s a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives—from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed best seller Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide in the back of an old truck with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel.

Learn from an expert on how to start a woodworking business. The author shares his experience in starting four woodworking businesses over a twenty year period. Norman Pirollo developed this woodworking business course to share the knowledge and expertise gained in establishing several woodworking businesses. The marketing techniques he shares are invaluable in the success of your new woodworking business. Learn what to do and what not to do to start and run a successful woodworking business. Topics such as required space, necessary tools, bookkeeping, business plan, marketing and efficient...

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery".

There's a college affordability crisis happening in the US right now. Tuition rates have soared, while increases in blue collar wages have slowed to a crawl. This adds up to a painful realization for lower-income young people desperately hoping to go to college: there's no way to pay for it. Bobbi Dempsey shares her brutally honest first-person account of the struggle to pay for her children's and her own education on a working-class salary.

Carlos Bulosan’s idealism and ambition would seem to position him for certain success in America, even given how young he is when he first makes the journey from the Philippines. However, after arriving in Seattle, employers are far more concerned with his Filipino background than they are with his character. Low-paying jobs - and an uncertain future - remain his daily reality.

Drawing from careful examinations of their personal narratives, Jamie L. Bronstein investigates the ways in which working people thought about the good life as seen through their experiences with family and friends, rewarding work, interaction with the natural world, science and creativity, political causes and religious commitments, and physical and economic struggles. Informed by the history of emotions and the philosophical and social-scientific literature on happiness, this book reflects broadly on the industrial-era working-class experience in an era of immense social and economic change.

This book is a conceptual analysis of race and class. It begins as a contemplation of the author's personal life experience with both varying from his white trash emigrant beginnings to his Ivy League education. It then goes on to an analytic contemplation of the past meanings of race and class, their present use and usefulness, and the future use and usefulness of these concepts. The author argues that social class distinctions are a necessary attribute of any modern Technological Society just as they have always been a necessary aspect of all past civilizations. The only new attribute of ...

In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was underway - Democrats were at war with themselves. In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story of when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed.

A fictionalized journey of many low-income and low-educated returnees from World War II as they attempt to build a life and a family in rural America. The story of this coal miner emulates the difficulties and challenges of many men of this period who do the best they can with the resources available to them in their home territory. June Buckhorn returns from war to the holler where he was born. He finds a wife and bonus children and attempts to build a new family. He takes the only job for which he is qualified which is in the dangerous coal mines of Kentucky. June is a mild mannered man ...

Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the US and UK, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of white working-class politics and the populism that is transforming the transatlantic social and political landscape.

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city.

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count.

In Labor's Love Lost, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America, demonstrating how momentous social and economic transformations have contributed to the collapse of this once-stable social class and what this seismic cultural shift means for the nation's future.

Thirty years ago, almost nobody talked about the white working class: in the House of Commons and the House of Lords the term had been used just three times in the previous two decades. Brexit helped to turn the group into a towering social and political force. But, in the aftermath, one-third of the population has been reduced to a cartoon. Veteran Economist journalist Joel Budd has spent years travelling around Britain, from Teesside to the Isle of Wight, south Wales to Lincolnshire. In Underdogs he offers a sharp corrective to the familiar stereotype of the white working class.

A ruined reputation. A harbour steeped in secrets. A love that defies every rule. Lady Celeste Hargrave was the darling of the London Season—until scandal exiled her to the windswept coast of Whitcombe Bay. Tasked with salvaging her uncle’s crumbling estate, Celeste finds more than ruined ledgers and storm-battered walls: she finds Elias Fletcher, the gruff harbourmaster with a past as shadowy as the cliffs below. Elias wants nothing to do with a titled lady—especially not one asking questions that could unravel the fragile peace in their smuggling-riddled village. But when danger ...

In a world where financial advice often feels out of reach for everyday people, Wealth Building: Simplified Wealth Building Strategies for the Working Class offers a refreshing, practical guide for anyone looking to secure their financial future. Best-selling author and experienced entrepreneur Bill Riggs provides straightforward, easy-to-follow strategies tailored for the working class, cutting through the noise and complexity of traditional financial advice. This book is designed for people who aren't financial experts but want to take control of their money and build lasting wealth. ...

A Leader. A Tragedy. A Second Chance. Breaker is the magnetic young leader of a tight-knit brotherhood forged through shared adventures and a daredevil spirit. His youthful morality is the foundation of their bond. A natural at inspiring loyalty and pushing boundaries, Breaker’s greatest strength—his fierce idealism—becomes his deepest vulnerability after a tragic event shatters his world. He falls into a spiral of guilt and shame, and crushed by the weight of his perceived failures, retreats to hide and atone. His sense of duty and responsibility, once a guiding light, becomes an ...

Fifteen years have passed since the death of Magma Man. The world has turned its back on the group of government-sanctioned superheroes who twice saved Earth from destruction. General Gordon and Speed Chicken have gone into exile. Others have traded superheroics for more normal lives. Wombat is now a house husband who bakes muffins and drives his adopted son to school every morning, supporting his wife Towanda's career.