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Class Matters

By The New York Times, Bill Keller

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| Paperback | 9780805080551

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Social class remains a powerful force in North American life, its effects more pronounced than most of us realize. From health to religious practice to college education to consumer goods, the differences that distinguish the top from the middle from the bottom remain stark, even as social mobility Continue

Social class remains a powerful force in North American life, its effects more pronounced than most of us realize. From health to religious practice to college education to consumer goods, the differences that distinguish the top from the middle from the bottom remain stark, even as social mobility seems to have stagnated. A team of New York Times reporters has spent more than a year exploring the ways in which classdefined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupationinfluences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity. This book takes us on a tour of what they found and what it means for the future.

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  • The Rich and Everyone Else

    In their own ways, three of the books under review— Class Matters, Inequality Matters, and The Chosen—warn that social barriers in the US are higher and economic inequality is more pronounced than at any time in recent memory. All three books also fr ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0805080554
  • ISBN-13: 9780805080551
  • Publisher: Times Books
  • Pub date: Sep 02, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 1032 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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