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Janesville by Amy Goldstein
epub |eng | | Author:Amy Goldstein

Days later, Janesville’s fortunes get a fresh dent. Yet again, it comes from Detroit. That Friday night, General Motors and the United Auto Workers reach a tentative agreement on a ...
( Category: State & Local April 25,2017 )
The Myth of Meritocracy by James Bloodworth
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:James Bloodworth [James Bloodworth]

The strength of weak ties in contemporary Britain was reiterated in an analysis at the LSE of the recent Great British Class Survey. Those who worked in professional occupations were ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion March 20,2017 )
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Michael Marmot [Marmot, Michael]

By focusing on the problem in a strategic way, working with young people, giving them access to information, and perhaps above all, caring, authorities in these towns lowered the toll ...
( Category: Social Policy February 26,2017 )
Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America by Bronstein Jamie;
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Bronstein, Jamie;

DELINEATING THE PROBLEM IN THE 1960s Prosperity during the 1950s was bounded by geography and economic sectors as well as by race. Agricultural mechanization meant that large numbers of farm ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 26,2017 )
The Anatomy of Inequality by Per Molander
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Per Molander [Molander, Per]

7 LIBERALISM AND INEQUALITY The common task liberal thinkers have set themselves is the shaping of a good constitution that will regulate the relationship between individuals—and between individuals and the ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 25,2017 )
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
epub |eng | 2009-01-16 | Author:Daniel Golden [Golden, Daniel]

AFTER MORE than thirty college coaches tried to recruit Ty Grisham, he accepted a baseball scholarship at the University of Virginia in 2001. The school got more than an outfielder. ...
( Category: Reform & Policy January 21,2017 )
Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance by M. Testa
epub |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:M. Testa

1966 When fascist organizations regroup and begin to make their presence felt on the streets, anti-fascists organize in response. When the NF held its first meeting in Westminster in December ...
( Category: Fascism November 19,2016 )
Necessary Trouble by Sarah Jaffe
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Sarah Jaffe

IT HAS ONLY BEEN RELATIVELY RECENTLY THAT ABORTION AND GAY rights were assumed to be the major concerns of people of faith. For much of US history, when politicians took ...
( Category: Human Rights September 5,2016 )
Brazillionaires by Cuadros Alex;
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cuadros, Alex; [Cuadros, Alex;]

CHAPTER 8 THE PROFIT MOTIVE A NEW RICHEST MAN, MERITOCRACY, AND THE VALUE OF MONEY “Money in and of itself isn’t what fascinates me.” —JORGE PAULO LEMANN ($20 BILLION) “Jorge ...
( Category: Globalization June 28,2016 )
Poor Worker's Unions by Vanessa Tait
epub |eng | 2016-04-24 | Author:Vanessa Tait

Management’s attempts to divide workers along race, gender, ethnicity, or citizenship lines undermine broader labor solidarity and lead to lower wages for all workers. This is particularly true in areas ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations June 26,2016 )
Capitalism's Crisis Deepens by Richard D. Wolff
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-12 | Author:Richard D. Wolff

The So-Called Recovery Recovery? What Recovery? July 28, 2011 The so-called economic recovery since mid-2009 was chiefly hype, a veneer of good news to disguise and minimize the awful underlying ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 16,2016 )
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gregory Clark [Clark, Gregory]

TABLE 10.6. Relative representation of samurai and kazoku among medical researchers, 1965–89 Year Samurai Kazoku Observed 1965–66 30 13 Observed 1989–90 70 23 1965–66 5.99 4.95 1989–90 4.69 2.94 Implied ...
( Category: Economic History May 24,2016 )
Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-In Edition) by Reich Robert B
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Reich, Robert B. [Reich, Robert B.]

3 Why Can’t We Be Content with Less? Historically, America’s cultural obsession to consume has been tempered by the “higher virtues” of thrift and self-sufficiency. “Be industrious and frugal, and ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 21,2016 )
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America (City Lights Open Media) by Wise Tim
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-20 | Author:Wise, Tim [Wise, Tim]

In short, the rich didn’t build their fortunes: the labor of others who were underpaid for their trouble did. Capitalists, it turns out, may be the most dependent people on ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 12,2016 )
Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

Enact a financial transactions tax Short-term financial transactions can contribute to economic volatility without providing any larger benefit to the economy as a whole. These transactions also point the financial ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2016 )

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