Inequality in the 21st Century | A Reader | David Grusky, Jasmine Hill

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Inequality in the 21st Century

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 21^st century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century

part 1|25 pages

The Classic Theory

chapter 2|8 pages

Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism

chapter 3|8 pages

Class, Status, Party

chapter 4|3 pages

The Conservation of Races

chapter 5|3 pages

Women and Economics

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

chapter 7|6 pages

Capital in the 21st Century

chapter 8|6 pages

The Race Between Education and Technology

chapter 9|3 pages

Why Is Income Inequality Growing?

chapter 10|11 pages

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

chapter 11|5 pages

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

chapter 12|3 pages

(Some) Inequality Is Good for You

part 3|26 pages

The One Percent

chapter 13|9 pages

The Power Elite

chapter 14|6 pages

The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class

chapter 15|5 pages

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

chapter 16|3 pages

Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite

part 4|69 pages

Poverty and the Underclass

chapter 17|8 pages

Nickel and Dimed

chapter 18|6 pages

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

chapter 19|6 pages

The War on Poverty 1

chapter 20|4 pages

The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States

chapter 21|3 pages

Poverty and Child Development

chapter 22|9 pages

Being Poor, Black, and American

chapter 23|8 pages

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

chapter 24|4 pages

Community Well-Being and the Great Recession

chapter 25|7 pages

The Legacy of Multigenerational Disadvantage

chapter 26|2 pages

Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty

chapter 27|8 pages

Incarceration and Social Inequality

part 5|99 pages

Mobility and the American Dream

chapter 28|13 pages

The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor

chapter 29|10 pages

Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment

chapter 30|2 pages

Rationing College Opportunity

chapter 31|6 pages

A New Social Psychological Model of Educational Attainment

chapter 32|1 pages

Academically Adrift

chapter 33|6 pages

Economic Mobility

chapter 34|8 pages

Does College Still Have Equalizing Effects?

chapter 35|3 pages

Paying for the Party

chapter 36|11 pages

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

chapter 37|12 pages

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

chapter 38|4 pages

The Strength of Weak Ties

chapter 39|7 pages

Networks, Race, and Hiring

chapter 40|2 pages

The Great Risk Shift

chapter 41|6 pages

Little Labor: How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape

chapter 42|4 pages

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

part 6|69 pages

Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

chapter 43|7 pages

Racial Formation in the United States

chapter 44|6 pages

The Dynamics of Racial Fluidity and Inequality

chapter 45|10 pages

The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants

chapter 46|5 pages

Why Replenishment Strengthens Racial and Ethnic Boundaries

chapter 47|5 pages

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

chapter 48|6 pages

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

chapter 49|4 pages

Stereotype Threat and African-American Student Achievement

chapter 50|10 pages

The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions

chapter 51|7 pages

How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order?

chapter 52|3 pages

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

chapter 53|3 pages

Tiger Kids and the Success Frame

part 7|79 pages

Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality

chapter 54|6 pages

The Social Construction of Gender

chapter 55|6 pages

Fag Discourse in a Post-Homophobic Era

chapter 56|4 pages

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

chapter 57|8 pages

Opting Out?

chapter 58|9 pages

Why Is There Still So Much Gender Segregation?

chapter 59|11 pages

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

chapter 60|9 pages

Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?

chapter 61|2 pages

Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter

chapter 62|5 pages

Do Openly Gay Men Experience Employment Discrimination?

chapter 63|10 pages

The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled

chapter 64|5 pages

The Persistence of Gender Inequality

part 8|34 pages

How Inequality Spills Over

chapter 65|10 pages

Income Inequality and Income Segregation

chapter 66|8 pages

The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting

chapter 67|8 pages

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

chapter 68|5 pages

The Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality

part 9|23 pages

Moving Toward Equality?

chapter 69|4 pages

Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children

chapter 70|1 pages

Why Late Investments Can Work

chapter 71|4 pages

Flexicurity

chapter 72|3 pages

Reducing Poverty the Democratic Way

chapter 73|3 pages

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

chapter 74|5 pages

We Need to Have a Second Conversation