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Introduction -- Forms and sources of inequality -- The structure of contemporary inequality -- Inequality at the extremes -- Generating inequality -- Race and ethnicity -- Gender inequality -- The consequences of inequality -- The future of inequality

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Stories About Inequality That We Love to Tell -- Part II Does Inequality Serve a Purpose? -- 2 Some Principles of Stratification -- 3 Inequality by Design -- 4 Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing -- Part III The Structure of Social Inequality -- SOCIAL CLASS -- 5 Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism -- 6 Class Counts -- STATUS -- 7 Class, Status, Party -- 8 Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society? Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship -- INCOME -- 9 Striking It Richer The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States -- 10 Is Market Failure Behind the Takeoff in Inequality? -- Part IV Inequality at the Extremes -- THE RULING CLASS, THE UPPER CLASS, AND ELITES -- 11 The Power Elite -- 12 Who Rules America? Power and Politics -- 13 The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class -- 14 Bobos in Paradise The New Upper Class and How They Got There -- POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS -- The Experience of Poverty -- 15 Nickel-and-Dimed On (not) Getting by in America -- 16 The Missing Class Portraits of the Near Poor in America -- How Much Poverty Is There? -- 17 Poorer by Comparison Poverty, Work, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -- The Sources of Poverty and the Underclass -- 18 Jobless Poverty A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto -- 19 American Apartheid Segregation and the Making of the Underclass -- 20 Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children's Well-Being -- Poverty and Social Policy -- 21 Flat Broke with Children Women in the Age of Welfare Reform -- 22 Incarceration, Unemployment, and Inequality -- 23 Escaping Poverty Can Housing Vouchers Help? -- Part V Racial and Ethnic Inequality -- CONSTRUCTING RACIAL CATEGORIES

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century -- PART I: THE CLASSIC THEORY -- 2 Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism -- 3 Class, Status, Party -- 4 The Conservation of Races -- 5 Women and Economics -- PART II: THE GREAT TAKEOFF IN INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY -- 6 Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States -- 7 Capital in the 21st Century -- 8 The Race Between Education and Technology -- 9 Why Is Income Inequality Growing? -- 10 Winner-Take-All-Politics -- 11 Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality -- 12 (Some) Inequality Is Good for You -- PART III: THE ONE PERCENT -- 13 The Power Elite -- 14 The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class -- 15 Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There -- 16 Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite -- PART IV: POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS -- The Everyday Life of the Poor -- 17 Nickel and Dimed -- 18 Low-Income Urban Fathers and the "Package Deal" of Family Life -- The Extent of Poverty in the U.S. -- 19 The War on Poverty -- 20 The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States -- Why Is There So Much Poverty? -- 21 Poverty and Child Development -- 22 Being Poor, Black, and American -- 23 American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass -- 24 Community of Well-Being and the Great Recession -- 25 The Legacy of Multigenerational Disadvantage -- 26 Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty -- 27 Incarceration and Social Inequality -- PART V: MOBILITY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM -- The Race for Education -- 28 The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor -- 29 Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment -- 30 Rationing College Opportunity