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Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty?Is inequa... Read More about The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time (Studies in Social Inequality)

This volume brings together leading public intellectuals—Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman—to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty and inequality. Contemporary research on inequality has largely rel... Read More about Poverty and Inequality (Studies in Social Inequality)

How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrial... Read More about Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics (Studies in Social Inequality)

The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This development, while spectacular, has been coupled with si... Read More about Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (Studies in Social Inequality)

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty?Is inequa... Read More about The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time (Studies in Social Inequality)

How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrial... Read More about Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics (Studies in Social Inequality)