| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Collected from a series of articles published in the New York Times in the spring of 2005. |
| Contents |
Shadowy lines that still divide / Janny Scott, David Leonhardt -- Life at the top in America isn't just better, it's longer / Janny Scott -- A marriage of unequals / Tamar Lewin -- Up from the holler : living in two worlds, at home in neither / Tamar Lewin -- On a Christian mission to the top / Laurie Goodstein, David D. Kirkpatrick -- The college dropout boom / David Leonhardt -- No degree, and no way back to the middle / Timothy Egan -- Fifteen years on the bottom rung / Anthony DePalma -- When the Joneses wear jeans / Jennifer Steinhauer -- The five-bedroom, six-figure rootless life / Peter T. Kilborn -- Old Nantucket warily meets the new / Geraldine Fabrikant -- Richest are leaving even the rich far behind / David Cay Johnston -- In fiction, a long history of fixation on the social gap / Charles McGrath -- Angela Whitiker's climb / Isabel Wilkerson -- Encounters with class -- Appendix. The New York Times poll on class. |
| Summary |
The topography of class in America has shifted over the past twenty years, blurring the lines between upper, middle and lower classes; some have argued that the concept of class is irrelevant in today's society... The reader, by following three heart attack victims through very different recoveries, by witnessing the divergent immigrant experiences of a Greek diner owner and his Mexican line cook, by tracing the life path of an Appalachian foster child turned lawyer and a single welfare mother turned registered nurse, or by seeing the world from the perspective of the wife of a "relo" (a six-figure executive who relocates every few years to climb the corporate ladder), quickly realizes class is defined by much more than income. The collection has the power of a great documentary film: it captures the lives and ideas of its subjects in lively, articulate prose that, while grounded in statistics and research, remains engaging and readable throughout. |
| Subject |
Social classes -- United States.
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Social mobility -- United States.
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Social values -- United States.
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Social stratification -- United States.
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Social classes -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Added Title |
New York times.
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| ISBN |
0805080554 |
| Standard No. |
9780805080551 |
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