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Book
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Title
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 Wealth and poverty in America : a reader / edited by Dalton Conley.
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Publisher
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Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
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Physical Descrip.
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ix, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-292) and index.
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Contents
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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 Wes
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Subject(s)
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Wealth -- United States.
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Rich people -- United States -- Conduct of life.
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Poverty -- United States.
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Poor -- United States.
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Equality -- United States.
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Other Author(s)
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Conley, Dalton, 1969-
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ISBN
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063123179X (alk. paper)
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0631231803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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SC Neilson Library
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