Citizenship

Barbalet's study is built around the arguments of T. H. Marshall, both the ideas he set out in his 1950 work on citizenship and social class and the criticism that has grown up around them. Its evidence is drawn from Britain alone, so the discussion stays within one national setting rather than comparing countries.

The book is written for readers interested in how citizenship is understood in political and social thought, and it works through Marshall's framework in detail rather than offering a broad survey of the subject.