Autore	Troutt David Dante
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina	305.50973
Soggetto topico	Income distribution - United States Social mobility - United States Social stratification - United States Racism - United States Equality - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8147-2489-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MUTUALITY -- 2. ALL THIS I MADE MYSELF -- 3. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE -- 4. THE PROMISE HALF EMPTY -- 5. WE RENAMED THE PROBLEM AND IT DISAPPEARED -- 6. ISLANDS WITHOUT PARADISE -- 7. RACELESS WONDERS -- 8. THE COSTS OF INEQUALITY AND A VISION FOR A MORE EQUITABLE AMERICA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Autore	Troutt David Dante
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina	305.50973
Soggetto topico	Income distribution - United States Social mobility - United States Social stratification - United States Racism - United States Equality - United States
ISBN	0-8147-2489-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MUTUALITY -- 2. ALL THIS I MADE MYSELF -- 3. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE -- 4. THE PROMISE HALF EMPTY -- 5. WE RENAMED THE PROBLEM AND IT DISAPPEARED -- 6. ISLANDS WITHOUT PARADISE -- 7. RACELESS WONDERS -- 8. THE COSTS OF INEQUALITY AND A VISION FOR A MORE EQUITABLE AMERICA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910824725003321

Autore	Williams Bob (Robert B.)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations, tables
Disciplina	339.2/20973
Collana	Economics in the real world
Soggetto topico	Wealth - United States Income distribution - United States Social stratification - United States Equality - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-39558-4 1-315-39556-8 1-315-39557-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Cracks in the American dream -- 2. A primer on household wealth -- 3. Pathways to wealth accumulation -- 4. Recognizing our past -- 5. Evidence of wealth privilege -- 6. Three views of the American dream -- 7. Resilience and wealth privilege -- 8. The spiral of privilege and policy -- 9. The white plutocracy system.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910153197703321

Autore	Jensen Barbara <1953->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (262 p.)
Disciplina	305.50973
Soggetto topico	Classism - United States Working class - United States - Social conditions Social classes - United States Social stratification - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8014-6452-8 1-322-50424-5 0-8014-6405-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Prologue : what part of Fridley are you from? -- Getting class -- The invisible ism -- Belonging versus becoming -- Behaving versus blooming -- Identity and resistance -- Across the great divide -- Pain in the promised land -- Gathering in Glenville.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452342603321

Autore	Estes Carroll L
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (307 p.)
Disciplina	362.6
Soggetto topico	Older people - United States Aging - United States Older people - Government policy - United States Older people - Medical care - United States Social stratification - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8039-7346-2 1-322-41771-7 1-4522-6702-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Chapter 3. The Medicalization and Commodification of Aging and the Privatization and Rationalization of Old Age PolicyThe Biomedicalization of Aging; The Commodification of Old Age and the Privatization of Medical Care; The Rationalization of Medical Care; Implications; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector: Systemic Crisis and the Political Economy of Aging Services; Shocks to the Nonprofit Sector: Historical Transformation, 1980 to the Present; Crisis Theory; Theorizing the Nonprofit Sector From a Political Economy Framework; Health and Human Services The Nonprofit Sector and Crisis: HypothesesConclusion; Chapter 5. Crisis, the Welfare State, and Aging: Ideology and Agency in the Social Security Privatization Debate; Creating a Crisis; The Privatization of Social Security; Media, Think Tanks, and the Disparate Influence of Pro-Privatizert; Capital and the Attack on Social Security; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Sex and Gender in the Political Economy of Aging; The Political Economy of Gender and Old Age; The Situation of Older Women; The Gendered State; Aging and State Theory; Women's Roles, Social Institutions, and Social Policy; Conclusion Chapter 7. Inequality and Aging: The Creation of DependencyCreating Dependency; Population Growth and the Dependency Ratio; Economic and Social Well-Being; Social Class and Health; Social Support and Health; Mortality; Morbidity; Use of Health Care; Conclusion; Chapter 8. The Medical-Industrial Complex and the Aging Enterprise; The Health Care System; The Role of Capital and the Marketplace; The Role of the State; The U.S. Medical-Industrial Complex in a Global Context; Conclusion; Chapter 9. A Political Economy Critique of ""Productive Aging"" The Development of the Productive Aging PerspectiveA Critique; Conclusion; Chapter 10. The Underdevelopment of Community-Based Services in the U. S. Long-Term Care System: A Structural Analysis; Aging and Disability in the United States; Long-Term Care and Community-Based Care; Financial and Industrial Capital; The Role of the State; Professionals and Delivery Systems in Long-Term Care; Conclusion: The Public, Users, and Family Members; Chapter 11. The Political Economy of Health Work; Health Work in the Capitalist Economy; Health Work Policy Environment: The Role of the State Conclusion: A New Perspective on Health Work
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480155703321