books about: unequal     books:     Unequal      Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System Douglas S. Massey Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2008 The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income distribution of any advanced industrialized nation. While other developed countries face similar challenges from globalization and technological change, none rivals America's singularly poor record for equitably distributing the benefits and burdens of recent ...             Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Most public health students, academics, and practitioners recognise the association between racial/ethnic minority status and the disproportionate burden of preventable disease in the USA. Much less attention has been directed, however, towards the health disparities that affect gay and bisexual men. These disparities affect the lives of an ...             Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age Kay S. Hymowitz Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006 Marriage is so much more than two people 'in love' This is a very powerful book. There are couple of concepts that really jumped out at me. 1) The modern notion that the primary purpose of marriage is personal happiness and expression, as oppose to child rearing. She really made some good arguments about why child ...             Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights Thom Hartmann Rodale Books, 2004 I recommend "Unequil Protection" as high school reqd reading Thom starts with the East India Company of the 1500's and its "corporate" charter, and walks you through to today. Then he presents you with several sources and methods or starting a grass-roots movement to change the "Santa Clara" decision, which gave corporations ...             Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success Princeton University Press, 2008 Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal ...             More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States Michael D. Yates Monthly Review Press, 2007 These down-to-earth writings are sure to resonate with anyone concerned about the dynamics of wealth and class in America Edited by Michael D. Yates (associate editor of "Monthly Review"), More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States is an anthology of essays by educated authors concerning issues of class, income, home ownership, access to health care, and power stratification in ...             Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age Larry M. Bartels Princeton University Press, 2008 Judgement Day is Here. Vote with your Pocketbook. The facts stand for themselves outside the realm of Partisan politics. Idealists hate facts. Fanatics hate facts. I Love facts. Whose ideas work the best is what I want. Most Americans would Love to make more money and do better each and every year. Who can argue ...             Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (Walras-Pareto Lectures) Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, ... The MIT Press, 2008 A worthwhile read Polarized America is a difficult, but valuable read. Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal, three political scientists wrote the book for other political scientists. Nevertheless, reading and then rereading the book is time well spent. Their arguments about ...             Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life Annette Lareau University of California Press, 2003 Unequal Childhoods Well Written and Well Researched Everyone knows that socioeconomic status is related to academic success, but not many books have examined the lives of kids outside of school in detail to reveal how differences in social class are related to differences in use of language, organizing time, dealing ...             Marriage and Caste in America: Seperate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age Kay S. Hymowitz Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007 A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a loving bond, largely centered on the rearing of children, the new arrangement called for an intimate--and provisional--union of two adults. Now, as Kay Hymowitz argues in Marriage and Caste in America, the results of ...             Global Inequality and Human Needs: Health and Illness in an Increasingly Unequal World Laurie Wermuth Allyn & Bacon, 2002 This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world. Global Inequality and Human Needs includes case studies from various countries (Russia, Chile, India, Sub-Saharan Africa) as well as the U.S. show the impact of policy on ...             Is Separate Unequal? Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation Albert L. Samuels University Press of Kansas, 2004 When racial segregation was the rule in southern schools, all-black universities like Jackson State, Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State represented the only opportunities for African Americans to obtain a college education. For that reason, the move toward desegregation triggered by Brown v, Board of Education was a mixed blessing for ...             Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn Harvard University Press, 2004 The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial ...             Who Chooses? Who Loses?: Culture, Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice (Sociology of ... Teachers College Press, 1996 Controversial claims are being debated about school choice and the application of market dynamics to education. But the polemics have far out-paced hard evidence regarding who participates in school choice experiments and what effects are felt by parents, children and schools. This work reports the latest empirical results on choice programs ...             Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay James K. Galbraith University Of Chicago Press, 2000 A compelling case that politics affects wages. Galbraith provides a cogent, well-documented argument that instability has more to do with wage inequality than does a mechanism for market efficiency. "When the ocean is flat, rowboats and dinghies can join the trawlers out on the reef where the fish are running. 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