Hailed by the "New Society" as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies.

曾任英国基尔大学管理学院社会/文化民族志教授，现执教于美国普林斯顿大学社会学系，是《民族志》期刊创始人兼高级编辑。1977年出版《学做工》，奠定了他在民族志、教育社会学/人类学领域“突破性”人物的历史地位；1978年出版在伯明翰当代文化研究中心完成的博士论文《世俗文化》；1990年出版《大众文化》；2000年出版《民族志的想象力》，讨论如何用民族志如实展现“活生生的日常文化”。

英国著名历史学家，作家，社会主义者，和平主义运动家。曾参加过英国共产党，在英国新左派运动中担任重要角色，投身欧洲反核运动等和平反战运动。以研究18世纪至19世纪的英国历史而闻名，代表作有《英国工人阶级的形成》、《理论的贫穷》、《烛下夜话》、《辉格党与猎人》、《公众习俗》等。

This is a book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the Hammonds."-- Commentary "Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination ...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be working-class and queer in twenty-first-century Britain? How is class experienced under conditions of austerity, while we are told society is classless? Do younger and older queers identify in class terms? How do queers navigate life in a post-feminist and 'post-gay' world? This book focuses on the lives of working-class queers, contextualizing experienc...(展开全部)

When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book "The Uses of Literacy", Britain was undergoing huge social...(展开全部)

Sociologists disagree not only on how best to define "class" but also as to its general role in social theory and continued relevance to sociological analysis. This book explores the theoretical foundations of six major perspectives of class through the contributions of experts in the field. While some assume that classes have largely dissolved, others believe class remains on...(展开全部)

萨利·安格尔·梅丽，女，美国纽约大学人类学及法律社会学教授，曾经担任美国法律与社会协会会长，美国政治学和法人类学协会会长。

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underp...(展开全部)