The making of the slave class / Jerry Carrier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

Social stratification--United States.

Social stratification.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

You can only be a king if you have many peasants. You can only have the super-rich if you have many who are poor. And this is the basis for class. A nationally recognized instructor in class, race, American culture, economic development and poverty issues, Jerry Carrier offers the personal story of a working class man's early life in poverty combined with a very cogent dissection of the signals and mechanisms that create and maintain the class system in the United States which determines who will prosper and who will fail.

Contents:

The not so free market

The American class system

The Okies, a case study

Class traits

One nation under God

The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings

Christianity and predestination comes to America

The early history

The revivalist movement

The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes

Other American working-class Christian movements

The ghetto complex

Christianity vs. science and modernism

Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict

The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists

Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture

The first sexual revolution

Prohibition

War on the working class: the war on drugs

The Christian conservatives take control of American politics

More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates

Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement

Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary

Father knows best, Christianity vs. women

Class and the gay movement

Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam

Conclusions about class and Christianity

Class and the military

Health and the working class

The geography of class

Income distribution

American poverty

The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility

Anomie: the price of upward mobility

Education, intelligence and middle-class bias

The graying of working-class America

Class and race

Gentrification

Self-cleaning ovens

A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit

The credit union movement

A sad story

Nonprofits and the community economic development movement

More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification

Transportation and class

In the hood

Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets

Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis

Greed, stupidity and arrogance

Conclusion: The Americans slave class.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-87586-770-7

OCLC:

693780685