The inequality reader: contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender

The rise and fall of benign narratives about inequality / David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelenyi Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis, Wilbert E. Moore Inequality by design / Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.] Inequality, too much of a good thing / Alan B. Krueger Classes in capitalism and pre-capitalism / Karl Marx Class, status, party / Max Weber Class counts / Erik Olin Wright The death of class / Jan Pakulski, Malcolm Waters Socioeconomic indexes for occupations : a review, update, and critique / Robert M. Hauser, John Robert Warren Inequality in earnings : trends and implications / Martina Morris, Bruce Western The power elite / C. Wright Mills Who rules America? : Power and politics / G. William Domhoff The future of intellectuals and the rise of the new class / Alvin W. Gouldner Bobos in paradise : the new upper class and how they got there / David Brooks Nickel-and-dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich United States poverty ina cross-national context / Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, and Gary Burtless Jobless poverty : a new form of social dislocation in the inner-city ghetto / William Julius Wilson American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass / Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton Neighborhoods, poverty, and children's well-being / Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform / Sharon Hays Incarceration, unemployment, and inequality / Bruce Western Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1990s / Michael Omi, Howard Winant Immigration, intermarriage, and the challenges of measuring racial/ethnic identities / Mary C. Waters The new second generation : segmented assimilation and its variants / Alejandro Portes, Min Zhou Black identities : West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities / Mary C. Waters The declining significance of race : Blacks and changing American institutions / William Julius Wilson The continuing significance of race : antiblack discrimination in public places / Joe R. Feagin Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? : A field experiment on labor market discrimination / Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan Stereotype threat and African-American student achievement / Claude Steele Black wealth / white wealth : a new perspective on racial inequality / Melvin L. Oliver, Thomas M. Shapiro The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States / Herbert J. Gans

The social construction of gender / Judith Lorber

The time bind : when work becomes home and home becomes work / Arlie Russell Hochschild

The opt-out revolution / Lisa Belkin

The time divide : work, family, and gender inequality / Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson

Orchestrating impartiality : the impact of "blind" auditions on female musicians / Claudia Goldin, Cecilia Rouse

Labor markets as queues : a structural approach to changing occupational sex composition / Barbara F. Reskin

Egalitarianism and gender inequality / Maria Charles, David B. Grusky

The within-job gender wage gap / Trond Petersen, Laurie A. Morgan

Devaluation and the pay of comparable male and female occupations / Paula England

The nanny chain / Arlie Russell Hochschild

The experience of social mobility / John H. Goldthorpe (in collaboration with Catriona Llewellyn and Clive Payne)

No degree, and no way back to the middle / Timothy Egan

Trends in class mobility : the post-war European experience / Robert Erikson, John H. Goldthorpe

Social mobility in Europe / Richard Breen

Are lifetime incomes growing more unequal? : Looking at new evidence on family income mobility / Katharine Bradbury, Jane Katz

The process of stratification / Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree

Family background and income in adulthood, 1961-1999 / David J. Harding ... [et al.]

The educational and early occupational attainment process / William H. Sewell, Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes

Ain't no makin it : leveled aspiration in a low-income neighborhood / Jay Macleod

The pecking order : which siblings succeed and why / Dalton Conley

The strength of weak ties / Mark S. Granovetter

Social networks and status attainment / Nan Lin

Structural holes / Ronald S. Burt

Life at the top in America isn't just better, it's longer / Janny Scott

Health, income, and inequality / John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert, and Barbara Wolfe

The social stratification of theatre, dance, and cinema attendance / Tak Wing Chan, John H. Goldthorpe

Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau

Digital inequality : from unequal access to differential use / Paul Dimaggio ... [et al.]

The realignment of U.S. presidential voting, 1948-2004 / Michael Hout, Benjamin Moodie

Globalism's discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz

The new geography of global income inequality / Glenn Firebaugh

Does poverty cause terrorism? : The economics and the education of suicide bombers / Alan B. Krueger, Jitka Maleckova.