The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality - Softcover

Gilbert, Dennis L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506345964 ISBN 13: 9781506345963

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

With the latest data on income, wealth, earnings, and residential segregation by income, The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, Tenth Edition describes a consistent pattern of growing inequality in the United States since the early 1970s. Focusing on the socioeconomic core of the American class system, author Dennis L. Gilbert examines how changes in the economy, family life, globalization, and politics are contributing to increasing class inequality.

 

New to this Edition

• “The Class Basis of Trump's Victory” looks at why for the first time since before the 1932 election, the Republican presidential candidate won a greater proportion of the working class vote than the Democratic opponent.
• Addresses the role of technology and other factors in the decline of manufacturing employment and how the trend is crucial for understanding growing inequality and changes in working class family life.
• Offers international comparisons to show how the U.S. compares with other wealthy nations on social mobility and poverty, and questions our conception of the U.S. as a uniquely open society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dennis Gilbert is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Hamilton College. His publications include The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880 to 1970 (2017), Mexico’s Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (2007), and Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution (1991).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1506345964
• ISBN 13: 9781506345963
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 303
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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