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02984aam a2200445 i 4500 001 A2EED7AAE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160830s2016 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016025051 020 $a 1440838283 (hardback : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9781440838286 (hardback : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)957581381 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HC110 I5 B66 2016 100 1 $a Bronstein, Jamie L., $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Two nations, indivisible : $b a history of inequality in America / $c Jamie L. Bronstein. 264 1 $a Santa Barbara, California : $b Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, $c [2016] 300 $a xvii, 215 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-208) and index. 520 $a "As this book will show, economic inequality has been a persistent, detrimental feature, in the United States since its founding, although the extent of the exploitation has changed over time. At the same time, a critique of inequality has also been ubiquitous, growing louder during some periods (the Depression years, for example) and more muted in others. Cyclically, the topic of inequality in the United States has emerged again in the twenty-first century. The New York Times in 2005 ran a series of articles on class, pointing out for its readership that, contrary to popular belief, the United States is not the most upwardly mobile country in the world"--Introduction. 505 0 $a Chapter 1. The American Revolution and Equality -- Chapter 2. Workingmen, Land, and the Age of Jackson : 1829-1865 -- Chapter 3. Free Labor and Social Darwinism : 1865-1900 -- Chapter 4. Liberalism in the Age of Monopoly : 1920-1929 -- Chapter 5. Challenge from the Left : 1929-1945 -- Chapter 6. The Great Compression and the War on Poverty, 1945-1979 -- Chapter 7. The Triumph of Neoliberalism : 1979-1999 -- Chapter 8. The New Inequality and the Lessons of the Past : 1999-Present. 650 0 $a Income distribution $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic conditions. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic policy. 651 0 $a United States $x Social policy. 650 0 $a Social classes $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Wealth $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Poverty $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Labor $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Liberalism $z United States $x History. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bronstein, Jamie L., 1968- author. $t Two nations, indivisible $d Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016] $z 9781440838293 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505013448.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214023934.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20181127010344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A2EED7AAE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search