The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subsidies all of which will contribute to further worsening the economic condition of the working...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of labour mobility and rural migration in the formation of working class attitudes characteristic of capitalism (proletarianisation) - discusses relationships with division of labour, and considers elements of social conflict inherent in workers...

We consider show that the timing of meals can be described as a bodily technique as described by Marcel Mauss. We examine how food socialization in families includes the incorporation of this timing. Based on the study of breakfast practices in working class families we discuss how mother teach...

В предлагаемой статье рассматривается современный российский рабочий класс в свете сословной теории. Сословия – основа социальной структуры в стабильный этап...

The aim of this work is a history of the development of the American Labor Movement. The book is one of the first attempts to analyze the relationship between business, employees and the government during such a long period of time (more than 250 years). Apart from political considerations the...

We draw on \'new\' class analysis to argue that mockery frames many cultural representations of class and move to consider how it operates within the processes of class distinction. Influenced by theories of disparagement humour, we explore how mockery creates spaces of enunciation, which serve,...

The last twenty years have witnessed a sustained attack on the working class and workers’ rights in India by both capital and the state. Certain practices and tendencies became more obvious by the 1990s. Most of them were not new, but the fact is they have been increasing, intensifying,...