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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- 1 Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality -- 2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- 3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- 4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- 5 The Rise of Unemployment Under Apartheid -- 6 Income Inequality at Apartheid's End -- 7 Social Stratification and Income Inequality at the End of Apartheid -- 8 Did the Unemployed Constitute an Underclass? -- 9 Income Inequality After Apartheid -- 10 The Post-Apartheid Distributional Regime -- 11 Transforming the Distributional Regime -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This volume is different from most existing social science books on inequality and vulnerability because it focuses on people who become the victims of those whom they know personally. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that people can gain power over each other and then abuse this power because of unequal resource conditions. The authors argue that unequal resource distribution among members of social units is the main cause of conflict and ultimately creates situations where members of a social unit can abuse other members of the same unit

The State of Working America -- Table of Contents -- Documentation and methodology. -- Chapter 1: Overview: Policy-driven inequality blocks living-standards growth for low- and middle-income Americans -- America's vast middle class has suffered a 'lost decade' and faces the threat of another -- Income and wage inequality have risen sharply over the last three-and-a-half decades -- Rising inequality is the major cause of wage stagnation for workers and of the failure of low- and middle-income families to appropriately benefit from growth. -- Economic policies caused increased inequality of wages and incomes -- Claims that growing inequality has not hurt middle-income families are flawed.. -- Growing income inequality has not been offset by increased mobility -- Inequalities persist by race and gender -- Economic history and policy as seen from below the top rungs of the wage and income ladder -- The Great Recession: Causes and consequences -- A very condensed macroeconomic history of the Great Recession and its aftermath -- Economic 'lost decades': Weak growth for most Americans' wages and incomes before and likely after the Great Recession -- Weak labor demand at the heart of the lost decade -- Weak labor demand devastates key living standards -- Dim growth prospects forecast another lost decade -- Two key lessons from the lost decade -- Extraordinarily unequal growth before the lost decade: Rising inequality blocksincome and wage growth from 1979 to 2007 -- Income inequality and stagnating living standards -- Wage inequality and the break between wages and productivity -- Strong income and wage growth in the atypical last half of the 1990s -- Economic mobility has neither caused nor cured the damage done by rising inequality -- Today's private economy: Not performing for middle-income Americans.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969 -- Part I. Economic Inequality and Income Inequality -- 1. From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -- 2. Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective -- Part II. Issues in Measurement of Inequality and Poverty -- 3. Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches 99 -- 4. Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty -- Part III. Structural Causes of African American Poverty -- 5. The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States -- 6. The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America -- 7. The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring -- Part IV. Critical Factors Militating Against Black Progress: Retrospect and Prospect -- 8. The Demise of a Dinosaur: Analyzing School and Housing Desegregation in Yonkers -- 9. Suburban Exclusion and the Courts: Can a Class-Based Remedy Reduce Urban Segregation? -- 10. Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s -- 11. Poverty, Racism, and Migration: The Health of the African American Population -- 12. The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty -- Part V. The Differential Impact of Skills on Earnings -- 13. U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the ''New Consensus'' -- 14. The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination -- 15. Escalating Differences and Elusive ''Skills'': Cognitive Abilities and the Explanation of Inequality -- 16. Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty -- Part VI. Racial and Familial Hardship: Welfare Benefits and Welfare Reform -- 17. Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility: An Alternative View.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is Political Equality a Reasonable Goal? -- 3. Is Political Equality Achievable? -- 4. A Respectable Role for Emotions -- 5. Political Equality, Human Nature, and Society -- 6. Will Political Inequality Increase in the United States? -- 7. Why Political Inequality May Decline -- Appendix: Definition of Polyarchy Scores -- Notes -- Index.

Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer and activist best known for her contributions to Victorian feminism and women's suffrage. After the death of her father in 1857, Cobbe travelled extensively across Europe before becoming a leader-writer addressing public issues for the London newspaper The Echo in 1868. She continued to publish on the topics of feminism, social problems and theology for the rest of her life. This volume, first published in 1863, contains a series of essays discussing topics of importance to early feminists. Cobbe explores sexual and matrimonial inequality and the changing status of and opportunities for single women, and advocates greater and more extensive female education. Cobbe also discusses possible reasons behind the inequality and limitations experienced by singe and married women, providing insights into the lives experienced by Victorian women and exemplifying the ideas and concerns of contemporary feminists

Intro -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Liberalism and Inequality -- ONE. Involuntary Association -- TWO. The Collectivism of Powerlessness -- THREE. Cultural Rights -- FOUR. Civil Society and the State -- FIVE. Deliberation . . . and What Else? -- SIX. Politics and Passion -- CONCLUSION: Global Equality -- APPENDIX: The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Questions, and the Standards a Satisfactory Answer Must Meet -- 2. The Logic -- 3. The Implications -- 4. The Developed Democracies Since World War II -- 5. Jurisdictional Integration and Foreign Trade -- 6. Inequality, Discrimination, and Development -- 7. Stagflation, Unemployment, and Business Cycles: An Evolutionary Approach to Macroeconomics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

In this volume, Terrence Paupp argues that much human conflict and environmental degradation is the direct consequence of poverty and inequality. Until these issues are addressed, many of the world's problems will remain. By using various road maps and remedies supplied by noted Japanese peace activist Daisaku Ikeda and his contemporaries, viable solutions will emerge

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conducting Global Social Research -- I. What Is Globalization? -- 3. Global Social Change in the Long Run -- 4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization -- 5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective -- II. Global Inequality -- 6. Global Inequality: An Introduction -- 7. Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications -- III. Globalization and the Environment -- 8. Ecosystems and World-Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process -- 9. Global Social Change, Natural Resource Consumption, and Environmental Degradation -- IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance -- 10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism -- 11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory -- V. Global Social Movements -- 12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization -- 13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement -- 14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society -- VI. Democracy and Democratization -- 15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy -- 16. Globalization and the Future of Democracy -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Clash of Traditions -- The Foundations of a Different Modernity -- The Revolt against Reason and Natural Rights -- The Political Culture of Prejudice -- The Law of Inequality and the War on Democracy -- The Intellectual Foundations of Nationalism -- The Crisis of Civilization, Relativism, and the Death of Universal Values at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Anti-Enlightenment of the Cold War -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Autobiography.--On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge --The progres of science --On the physical basis of life --On Descartes' "Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth" --On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history --Administrative nihilism --On the natural inequality of men --Natural rights and political rights --Government: anarchy or regimentation ; Mode of access: Internet.