Description: How class is structured in the call centres, office blocks and fast-food chains of modern Britain.
Brief description: Charles Umney is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He teaches, researches and writes on the subjects of trade unionism, working conditions and employment policy across Europe, and has also published extensively on the topic of working life in live music. He is the author of Class Matters (Pluto, 2018).
Review Quotes: 'A sophisticated answer to impoverished sociologies and cheap media cliches ... A sharp and deeply necessary book' Richard Seymour, A of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2017).