Inequality in the 21st Century

A Reader
Herausgeber: Grusky, David; Hill, Jasmine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have proven very adaptive and can flourish even today in the 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1139g
• ISBN-13: 9780367316242
• ISBN-10: 0367316242
• Artikelnr.: 57146318

Autorenporträt

David Grusky, Jasmine Hill

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century
The Classic Theory
Classes in Capitalism and Pre
Capitalism
Class, Status, Party
The Conservation of Races
Women and Economics
The Great Takeoff in Income and Wealth Inequality
Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States
Capital in the 21st Century
The Race Between Education and Technology
Why Is Income Inequality Growing?
Winner
Take
All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
(Some) Inequality Is Good for You
The One Percent
The Power Elite
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite
Poverty and the Underclass
Nickel and Dimed
Low
Income Urban Fathers and the "Package Deal" of Family Life
The War on Poverty
The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States
Poverty and Child Development
Being Poor, Black, and American
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Community Well
Being and the Great Recession
The Legacy of Multigenerational Disadvantage
Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty
Incarceration and Social Inequality
Mobility and the American Dream
The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment
Rationing College Opportunity
A New Social Psychological Model of Educational Attainment
Academically Adrift
Economic Mobility
Does College Still Have Equalizing Effects?
Paying for the Party
Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low
Income Neighborhood
It's a Decent Bet That Our Children Will Be Professors Too
The Strength of Weak Ties
Networks, Race, and Hiring
The Great Risk Shift
Little Labor: How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape
Labor Market Shocks: Are There Lessons for Anti
Poverty Policy?
Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
Racial Formation in the United States
The Dynamics of Racial Fluidity and Inequality
The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants
Why Replenishment Strengthens Racial and Ethnic Boundaries
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Stereotype Threat and African
American Student Achievement
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order?
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
Tiger Kids and the Success Frame
Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality
The Social Construction of Gender
Fag Discourse in a Post
Homophobic Era
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Opting Out?
Why Is There Still So Much Gender Segregation?
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians
Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?
Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter
Do Openly Gay Men Experience Employment Discrimination?
The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled
The Persistence of Gender Inequality
How Inequality Spills Over
Income Inequality and Income Segregation
The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
The Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality
Moving Toward Equality?
Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
Why Late Investments Can Work
Flexicurity
Reducing Poverty the Democratic Way
Tackling the Managerial Power Problem: The Key to Improving Executive Compensation
We Need to Have a Second Conversation