| Description |
205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Michael D. Yates -- Aspects of class in the United States : a prologue / John Bellamy Foster -- Worldwide class struggle / Vincent Navarro -- Power of the rich / William K. Tabb -- Some economics of class / Michael Perelman -- Harder times : undocumented workers and the U.S. informal economy / Richard D. Vogel -- Retreat from race and class / David Roediger -- Hard truth in the Big Easy : race and class in New Orleans, pre- and post-Katrina / Kristen Lavelle, Joe Feagin -- Will the real Black middle class please stand up? / Sabiyha Prince -- Back to class: reflections on the dialectics of class and identity / Martha Gimenez -- Women and class : what has happened in forty years? / Stephanie Luce, Mark Brenner -- Pedagogy of oppression / Peter McLaren, Ramin Farahmandpur -- Class : a personal story / Michael D. Yates -- Class for a downwardly mobile generation / Angela Jancius -- Six points on class / Michael Zweig. |
| Summary |
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class and racial divisions that still exist in the United States today. Despite the stock market gains of the 1990s, which increased the ranks of millionaires and created greater wealth for those already wealthy, U.S. society has witnessed a dramatic increase in class inequality over that last two decades. A host of newly available research indicates that the United States is a far more classbound society than was previously supposed. The rich are becoming both relatively and absolutely richer while the poor are becoming relatively, if not absolutely, poorer. This book is a sobering examination of the dynamics of class relations today; a group of essays that challenge many of our assumptions about class and provide a multilayered analysis. Class inequality manifests itself in wealth, income, and occupation, but also in education, consumption, and health. This book demonstrates that an analysis of society as a whole- its relationships of power, conflict, and potential for social change- is not possible without a thorough investigation of the role and meaning of class. |
| Subject |
Social classes -- United States.
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Equality -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Yates, Michael, 1946-
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| ISBN |
1583671595 |
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9781583671597 |
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1583671609 |
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9781583671603 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000041619282 |
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NLGGC 304919446 |
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NZ1 11385911 |
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