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Index
About the Author
Preface
1. Social Class in America 1
Karl Marx 3
Max Weber 7
Three Issues and Ten Variables 10
What Are Social Classes? 11
An American Class Structure 13
Is the American Class Structure Changing? 15
Conclusion
2. Position and Prestige 21
W. Lloyd Warner: Prestige Classes in Yankee City 22
Prestige Class as a Concept 25
Class Structure of the Metropolis 28
Prestige of Occupation
Occupations and Social Classes 35
Conclusion: Perception of Rank and Strata 38
Key Terms Defined in the Glossary
3. Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change
Middletown: 1890 and 1924 42
Middletown Revisited 43
Industrialization and the Transformation of the National Class Structure 44
The National Upper Class 45
The Industrial Working Class
The New Middle Class 49
National Occupational System 50
The Transformations of the American Occupational Structure
From Agricultural to Postindustrial Society 53
Women Workers in Postindustrial Society 56
Transformation of the Black Occupational Structure 58
Wages in the Age of Growing Inequality
Growing Inequality of Wages: Why? 63
Harrison and Bluestone: New Corporate Strategies 65
Frank and Cook: Winner Take All 67
Conclusion 68
Suggested Readings 70
4. Wealth and Income 73
The Income Parade 74
Lessons From the Parade 78
The Distribution of Income 80
Sources of Income 83
Taxes and Transfers: The Government as Robin Hood? 84
How Many Poor? 86
Women and the Distribution of Household Income
The Distribution of Wealth 88
Trends in the Distribution of Wealth 90
Trends in the Distribution of Income 92
Income Dynamics 94
Changing Federal Tax Rates 95
Suggested Readings 98
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