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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
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
part 1|25 pages
The Classic Theory
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 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
part 3|26 pages
The One Percent
part 4|69 pages
Poverty and the Underclass
chapter 18|6 pages
Low-Income Urban Fathers and the “Package Deal” of Family Life
ByKathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Joanna Miranda Reed
chapter 23|8 pages
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
ByDouglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton
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 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 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 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 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 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
part 7|79 pages
Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality
chapter 56|4 pages
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
ByArlie Russell Hochschild
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
part 8|34 pages
How Inequality Spills Over
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 73|3 pages
Tackling the Managerial Power Problem: The Key to Improving Executive Compensation
ByLucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried
