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The great inequality / Michael D. Yates.
Lippincott Library HC110.I5 Y37 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yates, Michael D., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Critical interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- United States.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Wealth--United States.
- Wealth.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Förenta staterna.
- Local Subjects:
- Förenta staterna.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- Summary:
- A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. It is and will continue to be the central issue of politics in almost every nation on earth. In this book, the author explains inequality in clear, passionate, and intelligent prose: what it is, why it matters, how it affects us, what its underlying causes are, and what we might do about it. This book was written to encourage informed radical action by working people, the unemployed, and the poor, uniquely blending the author's own experiences with his ability to make complex issues comprehensible to a mass audience. This book will be excellent for courses in a variety of disciplines, and it will be useful to activists and the general reading public. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Inequality casts a long shadow
- The great inequality
- All the economics you need to know in one lesson
- Markets are the problem, not the solution
- Work is hell
- The injuries of class
- It's still slavery by another name
- The ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey
- Cesar
- OWs and the importance of political slogans
- The growing degradation of work and life and what we might do to end it
- Global inequality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138183445
- 113818344X
- 9781138183452
- 1138183458
- OCLC:
- 916724377
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