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      Inequality in the 21st Century
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      Inequality in the 21st Century

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      Inequality in the 21st Century book

      A Reader

      Inequality in the 21st Century

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      Inequality in the 21st Century book

      A Reader
      Edited ByDavid B. Grusky, Jasmine Hill
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 31 May 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429499821
      Pages 506
      eBook ISBN 9780429499821
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Grusky, D.B., & Hill, J. (Eds.). (2018). Inequality in the 21st Century: A Reader (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429499821

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|7 pages

      Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century

      ByDavid B. Grusky, Jasmine Hill

      part 1|25 pages

      The Classic Theory

      chapter 2|8 pages

      Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism

      ByKarl Marx

      chapter 3|8 pages

      Class, Status, Party

      ByMax Weber

      chapter 4|3 pages

      The Conservation of Races

      ByW.E.B Du Bois

      chapter 5|3 pages

      Women and Economics

      ByCharlotte Perkins Gilman

      part 2|42 pages

      The Great Takeoff in Income and Wealth Inequality

      chapter 6|4 pages

      Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

      ByEmmanuel Saez

      chapter 7|6 pages

      Capital in the 21st Century

      ByThomas Piketty

      chapter 8|6 pages

      The Race Between Education and Technology

      ByClaudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz

      chapter 9|3 pages

      Why Is Income Inequality Growing?

      ByRobert Frank

      chapter 10|11 pages

      Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States

      ByJacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

      chapter 11|5 pages

      Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality

      ByBruce Western, Jake Rosenfeld

      chapter 12|3 pages

      (Some) Inequality Is Good for You

      ByRichard B. Freeman

      part 3|26 pages

      The One Percent

      chapter 13|9 pages

      The Power Elite

      ByC. Wright Mills

      chapter 14|6 pages

      The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class

      ByAlvin W. Gouldner

      chapter 15|5 pages

      Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

      ByDavid Brooks

      chapter 16|3 pages

      Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite

      ByShamus Khan

      part 4|69 pages

      Poverty and the Underclass

      chapter 17|8 pages

      Nickel and Dimed

      ByBarbara Ehrenreich

      chapter 18|6 pages

      Low-Income Urban Fathers and the “Package Deal” of Family Life

      ByKathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Joanna Miranda Reed

      chapter 19|6 pages

      The War on Poverty 1

      BySheldon Danziger, Christopher Wimer

      chapter 20|4 pages

      The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States

      ByH. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin

      chapter 21|3 pages

      Poverty and Child Development

      ByJack Shonkoff

      chapter 22|9 pages

      Being Poor, Black, and American

      ByWilliam Julius Wilson

      chapter 23|8 pages

      American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

      ByDouglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

      chapter 24|4 pages

      Community Well-Being and the Great Recession

      ByAnn Owens, Robert J. Sampson

      chapter 25|7 pages

      The Legacy of Multigenerational Disadvantage

      ByPatrick Sharkey, Felix Elwert

      chapter 26|2 pages

      Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty

      ByMatthew Desmond

      chapter 27|8 pages

      Incarceration and Social Inequality

      ByBruce Western, Becky Pettit

      part 5|99 pages

      Mobility and the American Dream

      chapter 28|13 pages

      The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor

      BySean F. Reardon

      chapter 29|10 pages

      Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment

      ByRichard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller, Reinhard Pollak

      chapter 30|2 pages

      Rationing College Opportunity

      ByMichael Hout

      chapter 31|6 pages

      A New Social Psychological Model of Educational Attainment

      ByStephen L. Morgan

      chapter 32|1 pages

      Academically Adrift

      ByJosipa Roksa, Richard Arum

      chapter 33|6 pages

      Economic Mobility

      ByRaj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez

      chapter 34|8 pages

      Does College Still Have Equalizing Effects?

      ByFlorencia Torche

      chapter 35|3 pages

      Paying for the Party

      ByLaura Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Armstrong

      chapter 36|11 pages

      Ain’t No Makin’ It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood

      ByJay MacLeod

      chapter 37|12 pages

      It’s a Decent Bet That Our Children Will Be Professors Too

      ByJan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak

      chapter 38|4 pages

      The Strength of Weak Ties

      ByMark S. Granovetter

      chapter 39|7 pages

      Networks, Race, and Hiring

      ByRoberto M. Fernandez, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo

      chapter 40|2 pages

      The Great Risk Shift

      ByJacob Hacker

      chapter 41|6 pages

      Little Labor: How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape

      ByJake Rosenfeld

      chapter 42|4 pages

      Labor Market Shocks: Are There Lessons for Anti-Poverty Policy?

      ByAnn Huff Stevens

      part 6|69 pages

      Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

      chapter 43|7 pages

      Racial Formation in the United States

      ByMichael Omi, Howard Winant

      chapter 44|6 pages

      The Dynamics of Racial Fluidity and Inequality

      ByAliya Saperstein, Andrew M. Penner

      chapter 45|10 pages

      The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants

      ByAlejandro Portes, Min Zhou

      chapter 46|5 pages

      Why Replenishment Strengthens Racial and Ethnic Boundaries

      ByTomás R. Jiménez

      chapter 47|5 pages

      Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

      ByMarianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan

      chapter 48|6 pages

      Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

      ByDevah Pager

      chapter 49|4 pages

      Stereotype Threat and African-American Student Achievement

      ByClaude Steele

      chapter 50|10 pages

      The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions

      ByWilliam Julius Wilson

      chapter 51|7 pages

      How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order?

      ByReanne Frank, Ilana Redstone Akresh, Bo Lu

      chapter 52|3 pages

      Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

      ByMary Pattillo

      chapter 53|3 pages

      Tiger Kids and the Success Frame

      ByJennifer Lee

      part 7|79 pages

      Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality

      chapter 54|6 pages

      The Social Construction of Gender

      ByJudith Lorber

      chapter 55|6 pages

      Fag Discourse in a Post-Homophobic Era

      ByC.J. Pascoe, Tristan Bridges

      chapter 56|4 pages

      The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

      ByArlie Russell Hochschild

      chapter 57|8 pages

      Opting Out?

      ByChristine Percheski

      chapter 58|9 pages

      Why Is There Still So Much Gender Segregation?

      ByAsaf Levanon, David B. Grusky

      chapter 59|11 pages

      Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians

      ByClaudia Goldin, Cecilia Rouse

      chapter 60|9 pages

      Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?

      ByShelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, In Paik

      chapter 61|2 pages

      Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter

      ByMargaret L. Andersen, Patricia Hill Collins

      chapter 62|5 pages

      Do Openly Gay Men Experience Employment Discrimination?

      ByAndrás Tilcsik

      chapter 63|10 pages

      The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled

      ByPaula England

      chapter 64|5 pages

      The Persistence of Gender Inequality

      ByCecilia Ridgeway

      part 8|34 pages

      How Inequality Spills Over

      chapter 65|10 pages

      Income Inequality and Income Segregation

      BySean F. Reardon, Kendra Bischoff

      chapter 66|8 pages

      The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting

      ByMichael Hout, Daniel Laurison

      chapter 67|8 pages

      Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

      ByAnnette Lareau

      chapter 68|5 pages

      The Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality

      ByKaren Lutfey, Jeremy Freese

      part 9|23 pages

      Moving Toward Equality?

      chapter 69|4 pages

      Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children

      ByJames J. Heckman

      chapter 70|1 pages

      Why Late Investments Can Work

      ByCarol S. Dweck

      chapter 71|4 pages

      Flexicurity

      ByJoshua Cohen, Charles Sabel

      chapter 72|3 pages

      Reducing Poverty the Democratic Way

      ByHarry J. Holzer

      chapter 73|3 pages

      Tackling the Managerial Power Problem: The Key to Improving Executive Compensation

      ByLucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried

      chapter 74|5 pages

      We Need to Have a Second Conversation

      ByMichelle Jackson
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