The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality - Softcover

Gilbert, Dennis L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141297965X ISBN 13: 9781412979658

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

In this Eighth Edition of his acclaimed and thought-provoking text, author Dennis Gilbert explores historical and contemporary empirical studies of class inequality in America through the lens of nine key variables. Focusing on the socioeconomic core of the American class system, Gilbert describes a consistent pattern of growing inequality in the United States since the early 1970s. In his search for the answer to why class disparities continue to increase, Gilbert examines changes in the economy, family life, and politics, drawing on vivid first-person accounts to illustrate the human emotion wrapped up in class issues.

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis Gilbert holds a PhD from Cornell University and has taught at Cornell, the Universidad Católica in Lima, Peru, and Hamilton College, where he is Professor of Sociology Emeritus. He is also the author of The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880 to 1970 (2017),  Mexico’s Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (2007), Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution (1991), and La Oligarquía Peruana: Historia de Tres Familias (1982).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 141297965X
• ISBN 13: 9781412979658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312