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
part 3|26 pages
The One Percent
part 4|69 pages
Poverty and the Underclass
part 5|99 pages
Mobility and the American Dream
part 6|69 pages
Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
part 7|79 pages
Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality
part 8|34 pages
How Inequality Spills Over
part 9|23 pages
Moving Toward Equality?
