LEADER 04264nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910459915503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-87586-770-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000069016 035 $a(EBL)617398 035 $a(OCoLC)693780685 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000422496 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12110532 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422496 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10418929 035 $a(PQKB)10700328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10476894 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000069016 100 $a20100125d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making of the slave class$b[electronic resource] /$fJerry Carrier 210 $aNew York $cAlgora Pub.$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87586-768-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aYou 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. 606 $aSocial classes$zUnited States 606 $aSocial stratification$zUnited States 606 $aPoor$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial classes 615 0$aSocial stratification 615 0$aPoor 676 $a305.5/690973 700 $aCarrier$b Jerry$f1948-$0873016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459915503321 996 $aThe making of the slave class$92005190 997 $aUNINA