This article reviews approaches to the study of poverty, inequality and social exclusion in
rural areas and seeks to relate these to new directions in class analysis and to ideas of …

Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get
by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically …

In 1951, Ruth Glass took up a post as Director of Social Research at University College
London. Her sustained intellectual and critical engagement with the postwar upheavals that …

Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration,
while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book …

In this chapter, youth transitions will be discussed in the framework of life course theory and
with a focus on the consequences of the restructuring of work for the timing of adulthood in a …

From its beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, interest in the topic of gender and migration
has grown. Gender and Migration seeks to introduce the most relevant sociological theories …

This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and
Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes …

The book studies transformations of European universities in the context of globalization and
Europeanization, the questioning of the foundations of the «Golden Age» of the Keynesian …

Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the
West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy …

The objective of this book is to provide a scholarly yet accessible text about contemporary
urban regeneration in London. London, as the dominant metropolitan centre, not just in the …