ABSTRACT

Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.

part 1|14 pages

Introduction

part 2|19 pages

Does Inequality Serve a Purpose?

part 3|63 pages

The Structure of Social Inequality

chapter 6|8 pages

Class Counts

chapter 7|12 pages

Class, Status, Party

chapter 8|18 pages

Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?

Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship

chapter 9|4 pages

Striking It Richer

The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

part 4|121 pages

Inequality at the Extremes

chapter 11|12 pages

The Power Elite

chapter 12|6 pages

Who Rules America?

Power and Politics

chapter 14|8 pages

Bobos in Paradise

The New Upper Class and How They Got There

chapter 15|11 pages

Nickel-and-Dimed

On (not) Getting by in America

chapter 16|6 pages

The Missing Class

Portraits of the Near Poor in America

chapter 17|6 pages

Poorer by Comparison

Poverty, Work, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

chapter 18|11 pages

Jobless Poverty

A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto

chapter 19|12 pages

American Apartheid

Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

chapter 21|12 pages

Flat Broke with Children

Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

chapter 23|6 pages

Escaping Poverty

Can Housing Vouchers Help?

part 5|96 pages

Racial and Ethnic Inequality

chapter 24|6 pages

Racial Formation in the United States

From the 1960s to the 1990s

chapter 25|9 pages

Racial Identities in 2000

The Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option

chapter 26|13 pages

The New Second Generation

Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants

chapter 27|4 pages

Black Identities

West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities

chapter 28|6 pages

Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?

A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

chapter 29|9 pages

Marked

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

chapter 30|7 pages

The Continuing Significance of Race

Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places

chapter 32|14 pages

The Declining Significance of Race

Blacks and Changing American Institutions

chapter 33|8 pages

Black Wealth/White Wealth

A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

part 6|133 pages

Gender Inequality

chapter 36|8 pages

The Social Construction of Gender

chapter 37|6 pages

The Time Bind

When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

chapter 38|5 pages

The Opt-Out Revolution

chapter 39|8 pages

Getting to Equal

Progress, Pitfalls, and Policy Solutions on the Road to Gender Parity in the Workplace

chapter 40|6 pages

The Time Divide

Work, Family, and Gender Inequality

chapter 41|14 pages

Orchestrating Impartiality

The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians

chapter 42|13 pages

Getting a Job

Is There a Motherhood Penalty?

chapter 45|7 pages

Detours on the Road to Equality

Women, Work, and Higher Education

chapter 48|20 pages

The Gender Pay Gap

Have Women Gone as Far as They Can?

chapter 49|4 pages

The Nanny Chain

part 7|161 pages

Generating Inequality

chapter 51|14 pages

Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment

Evidence from Eight European Countries

chapter 53|18 pages

Social Mobility in Europe

chapter 55|10 pages

Like Watching Grass Grow?

Assessing Changes in U.S. Intragenerational Economic Mobility over the Past Two Decades

chapter 56|14 pages

The Process of Stratification

Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree

chapter 59|17 pages

Ain’t No Makin’ It

Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood

chapter 60|5 pages

The Pecking Order

Which Siblings Succeed and Why

chapter 61|5 pages

The Strength of Weak Ties

chapter 62|3 pages

Social Networks and Status Attainment

chapter 63|5 pages

Structural Holes

part 8|58 pages

The Consequences of Inequality

part 9|24 pages

Globalization and Inequality

part 10|52 pages

What Is To Be Done?

chapter 72|8 pages

Little Labor

How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape

chapter 73|7 pages

Crisis No More

The Success of Obama’s Stimulus Program

chapter 75|2 pages

The Harlem Miracle

chapter 76|6 pages

Flexicurity

chapter 77|5 pages

A Golden Parachute for Everyone?

chapter 79|6 pages

Tackling the Managerial Power Problem

The Key to Improving Executive Compensation