The modern working class is not especially noted for its optimism or idealism. Indeed, the
industrial proletariat may well have pioneered in the adoption of those secular and cynical
life-styles and values that have come increasingly to pervade twentieth-century society and …

This guide examines the Cold War and its lasting legacy. James Cronin carefully explores
the creation and structure of the post-war settlement; its successes, failures and adaptions;
and the eventual coming apart of the post-war order in the 1980s and early 1990s. Cronin …

Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in
evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described
herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and …

Not long ago, sociologists and labor economists used to talk confidently about the “natural
history of the strike”. By that they meant its rather smooth progress along a line that
supposedly rose rapidly in the early stages of industrial growth, gradually flattened out with …

In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and US politics consider how
center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left's responses to
the end of the postwar economic boom, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the erosion of …