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Wealth and poverty in America : a reader / edited by Dalton Conley.
Lippincott Library HC110.W4 W426 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wealth--United States.
- Wealth.
- Rich people.
- Conduct of life.
- United States.
- Rich people--United States--Conduct of life.
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- Poor--United States.
- Poor.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- 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 ... [et al.]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 063123179X
- 0631231803
- OCLC:
- 49952394
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