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Wealth and poverty in America : a reader

Title
Wealth and poverty in America : a reader / edited by Dalton Conley.
Publication
Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

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Additional Authors
Conley, Dalton, 1969-
Description
ix, 301 pages; 26 cm
Subject
  • Wealth > United States
  • Rich people > United States > Conduct of life
  • Poverty > United States
  • Poor > United States
  • Equality > United States
  • Equality
  • Poor
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Soziale Situation
  • Armut
  • Economische geschiedenis
  • Armen (personen)
  • Welgestelden
  • Inkomensverdeling
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292) and index.
Contents
Of the division of labour / Adam Smith -- Absolute and relative surplus value / Karl Marx -- Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore -- Winner-take-all markets / Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook -- Inequality / Christopher Jencks [and others] -- What money can't buy : family income and children's life chances / Susan Mayer -- Being black, living in the red : race, wealth, and social policy in America / Dalton Conley -- Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the black middle class / Mary Pattillo-McCoy -- Ain't no making it : aspirations and attainment in a low-income neighborhood / Jay MacLeod -- From Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Miser and the spendthrift / Georg Simmel -- Very rich / C. Wright Mills -- Bobos in paradise : the new upper class and how they got there / David Brooks -- Case of Pullman, Illinois / Michael Walzer -- Swapping / Carol Stack -- Code of the streets / Elijah Anderson -- Sidewalk sleeping and crack bingeing / Mitchell Duneier -- Whores, slaves, and stallions : languages of exploitation and accommodation among prizefighters / Loïc Wacquant -- In the shadow of the poorhouse : a social history of welfare in America / Michael Katz -- Hidden agenda / William Julius Wilson -- Stakeholder society / Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott -- Black economic progress in the era of mass imprisonment / Bruce Western, Becky Pettit, and Josh Guetzkow.
ISBN
  • 063123179X
  • 9780631231790
  • 0631231803
  • 9780631231806
LCCN
  • 2002074609
  • 9780631231806
OCLC
  • ocm49952394
  • 49952394
  • SCSB-14571629
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library