04264nam 2200577 a 450 991045991550332120200520144314.00-87586-770-7(CKB)2670000000069016(EBL)617398(OCoLC)693780685(SSID)ssj0000422496(PQKBManifestationID)12110532(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422496(PQKBWorkID)10418929(PQKB)10700328(MiAaPQ)EBC617398(Au-PeEL)EBL617398(CaPaEBR)ebr10476894(EXLCZ)99267000000006901620100125d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe making of the slave class[electronic resource] /Jerry CarrierNew York Algora Pub.c20101 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87586-768-5 Includes bibliographical references.The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class.You can only be a king if you have many peasants. You can only have the super-rich if you have many who are poor. And this is the basis for class. A nationally recognized instructor in class, race, American culture, economic development and poverty issues, Jerry Carrier offers the personal story of a working class man's early life in poverty combined with a very cogent dissection of the signals and mechanisms that create and maintain the class system in the United States which determines who will prosper and who will fail.Social classesUnited StatesSocial stratificationUnited StatesPoorUnited StatesUnited StatesEconomic conditionsElectronic books.Social classesSocial stratificationPoor305.5/690973Carrier Jerry1948-873016MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459915503321The making of the slave class2005190UNINA