Class Matters
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Release Year
- 2005
- ISBN
- 9780805080551
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805080554
ISBN-13
9780805080551
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47675281
Product Key Features
Book Title
Class Matters
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Modern / 21st Century, Economic Conditions
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-050686
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
305.5/13/0973
Table Of Content
Introduction by Bill Keller Shadowy Lines That Still Divide by Janny Scott and David Leonhardt Life at the Top in American Isn't Just Better, It's Longer by Janny Scott A Marriage of Unequals by Tamar Lewin Up from the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither by Tamar Lewin On a Christian Mission to the Top by Laurie Goodstein and David D. Kirkpatrick The College Dropout Boom by David Leonhardt No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle by Timothy Egan Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung by Anthony DePalma When the Joneses Wear Jeans by Jennifer Steinhauer The Five-Bedroom, Six Figure Rootless Life by Peter T. Kilborn Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New by Geraldine Fabrikant Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind by David Cay Johnston In Fiction, a Long History of Fixation on the Social Gap by Charles McGrath Angela Whitiker's Climb by Isabel Wilkerson Encounters with Class My Nanny Was a Dreadful Snob by Christopher Buckley Downwardly Mobile in Birmingham by Diane McWhorter From the Bronx to Cornell by Richard Price At the Top of the Bottom in the Segregated South by David Levering Lewis We Were Poor, but I Didn't Know It by Linda Chavez
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America--and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that they can become rich through education, hard work, or sheer gumption. And yet social class remains a powerful force in American life. In Class Matters , a team of New York Times reporters explores the ways in which class--defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation--influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity. We meet individuals in Kentucky and Chicago who have used education to lift themselves out of poverty and others in Virginia and Washington whose lack of education holds them back. We meet an upper-middle-class family in Georgia who moves to a different town every few years, and the newly rich in Nantucket whose mega-mansions have driven out the longstanding residents. And we see how class disparities manifest themselves at the doctor's office and at the marriage altar. For anyone concerned about the future of the American dream, Class Matters is truly essential reading. " Class Matters is a beautifully reported, deeply disturbing, portrait of a society bent out of shape by harsh inequalities. Read it and see how you fit into the problem or--better yet--the solution " --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America--and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that they can become rich through education, hard work, or sheer gumption. And yet social class remains a powerful force in American life. In Class Matters , a team of New York Times reporters explores the ways in which class--defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation--influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity. We meet individuals in Kentucky and Chicago who have used education to lift themselves out of poverty and others in Virginia and Washington whose lack of education holds them back. We meet an upper-middle-class family in Georgia who moves to a different town every few years, and the newly rich in Nantucket whose mega-mansions have driven out the longstanding residents. And we see how class disparities manifest themselves at the doctor's office and at the marriage altar. For anyone concerned about the future of the American dream, Class Matters is truly essential reading. " Class Matters is a beautifully reported, deeply disturbing, portrait of a society bent out of shape by harsh inequalities. Read it and see how you fit into the problem or--better yet--the solution!" --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, A team of "New York Times" reporters spent more than a year exploring the ways in which class--defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation--influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity.
LC Classification Number
HN90.S6C565 2005
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- u***u (816)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe quality of the book is excellent. The books condition new. Well worth its value. Very nice layout of pics and recipes. Protective packaging.