Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
$28.99 Add to cartThe controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and p… [more below]
- Author: Herrnstein, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824299
- Language: English
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The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
$15.95 Add to cartWho do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, a
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1631495976
- Language: English
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Janesville: An American Story
$17.00 Add to cart* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102265
- Language: English
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I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People
$20.99 Add to cart- 2020 American Express NGen Leadership Award
We don’t care about what we don’t see. Countless people are invisible to us. We overlook the poor and homeless, partly because we don’t share much space wit
- Author: Lester, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0830845720
- Language: English
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to h
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0671792253
- Language: English
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Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
$31.48 Add to cartA compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them
“Conniff brings her skills and- Author: Conniff, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976374
- Language: English
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos
$29.00 Read moreBased on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where
- Author: Garcia, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605785
- Language: English
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
$19.95 Add to cartAn expanded new edition of the classic, pithy account of capitalism’s origins–“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)
How did the dynamic eco- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1786630680
- Language: English
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A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
$28.99 Read moreA revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives–from the New York Times bestselling author… [more below]
- Author: Benforado, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1984823043
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$46.58 Read moreHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0691194432
- Language: English
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The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
$19.95 Read moreA VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by- Author: Norton, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1804291315
- Language: English
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
$18.99 Add to cart“Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age,” (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor
After the local newspaper where she… [more below]- Author: Guendelsberger, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509019
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$16.95 Add to cartHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 069120649X
- Language: English
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The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
$24.99 Add to cartWhat we think of as liberalism today–the top and bottom coalition we associate with President Obama–began not with Progressivism or the new deal, but rather in the wake of the post-WWI disillusionme… [more below]
- Author: Siegel, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1594037957
- Language: English
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Black Bourgeoisie
$19.99 Add to cartA classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Fr- Author: Frazier, Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832410
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
$17.95 Add to cartA surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as material- Author: Sherman, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191905
- Language: English
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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
$18.99 Add to cart“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood an
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063038528
- Language: English
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Sea State: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub
A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female
- Author: Lasley, Tabitha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063030845
- Language: English
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You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
$19.95 Add to cart“This is the book to throw at your human resources director–not literally, of course–when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made…It is a closely argue
- Author: Rosenfeld, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 067429548X
- Language: English
