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Middle Class AlterLinks Topic Index The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912 Resource Type: Book Published: 1952 A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate. Canada's Great Divide The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder. The Canadian City Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 False Promises The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Fear of Falling The Inner Life of the Middle Class Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role. George Orwell: A Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 A biography of George Orwell. The History of Democracy A Marxist Interpretation Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits Great Cities of North America Since 1600 Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975). Man's Worldly Goods The Story of the Wealth of Nations Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed. More Unequal Aspects of Class in the United States Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class. A People's History of the World From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Politics of Communication A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 The Socialist Register 1989 Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989 The Trouble With Billionaires Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatends everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.

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