Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-292) and index.
Contents:
Black economic progress in the era of mass imprisonment / Bruce Western, Becky Pettit, and Josh Guetzkow. 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 / Loìˆc 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.
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