The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class structure was accompanied by a widening class gap in life...

Die Europäisierungsforschung widmet sich der Erforschung der Rückwirkungen der europäischen Integration auf die EU-Mitgliedstaaten. Trotz der Bedeutung von Kapital und Arbeit und ihren Organisationen für die politischen Ökonomien der EU-Mitgliedstaaten hat die Europäisierungslite-ratur den...

Introduction: Defining and defying common (mis)understandings of the working class / Jennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy -- Social class and sociolects / Irvin Peckham -- Becoming "gente educada" : navigating academia as a working-class, multiply-marginalized student / Christina V. Cedillo --...

This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences of ‘dirty’ work. Based on a unique study of male street cleaners, refuse collectors, graffiti removers and butchers, and drawing on Bourdieu...