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Education And Intergenerational Social Mobility In Europe And The United States

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 This volume examines the role of education in shaping rates and patterns of intergenerational social mobility among men and women during the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationship between a person''s social class and the social class of his or her parents, each chapter looks at a different country—the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. Contributors examine change in absolute and relative mobility and in education across birth cohorts born between the first decade of the twentieth century and the early 1970s. They find a striking similarity in trends across all countries, and in particular a contrast between the fortunes of people born before the 1950s, those who enjoyed increasing rates of upward mobility and a decline in the strength of the link between class origins and destinations, and later generations who experienced more downward mobility and little change in how origins and destinations are linked. This volume uncovers the factors that drove these shifts, revealing education as significant in promoting social openness. It will be an invaluable source for anyone who wants to understand the evolution of mobility and inequality in the contemporary world.
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Waiting On Retirement - Aging And Economic Insecurity In Low-Wage Work

by Mary Gatta

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 America is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social security, the American Dream of secure retirement becomes further out of reach for up to half of the population. In Waiting on Retirement, Mary Gatta takes the case of restaurant workers to examine the experiences of low-wage workers who are middle-aged, aging, and past retirement age. She deftly explores the many factors shaping what it means to grow old in economic insecurity as her subjects face race- and gender-based inequities, health hazards associated with their work, and the bitter reality that the older they get the fewer professional opportunities are available to them. More importantly, Gatta demonstrates that these problems are pervasive, as more industries adopt the worst workplace practices of service work. In light of these trends, we must consider the devastating effects on already vulnerable Americans because, as Gatta contends, this crisis does not need to be inevitable. Taking as a model the small percentage of "good" restaurant jobs that exist, she ultimately offers incisive commentary on what can be done to stave off this bleak future.
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Myth Of Millionaire Tax Flight - How Place Still Matters For The Rich

by Cristobal Young

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 In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residents, there is a palpable concern that these high rollers will board their private jets and fly away, taking their wealth with them. Many assume that the importance of location to a person''s success is at an all-time low. Cristobal Young, however, makes the surprising argument that location is very important to the world''s richest people. Frequently, he says, place has a great deal to do with how they make their millions. In The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight, Young examines a trove of data on millionaires and billionaires—confidential tax returns, Forbes lists, and census records—and distills down surprising insights. While economic elites have the resources and capacity to flee high-tax places, their actual migration is surprisingly limited. For the rich, ongoing economic potential is tied to the place where they become successful—often where they are powerful insiders—and that success ultimately diminishes both the incentive and desire to migrate. This important book debunks a powerful idea that has driven fiscal policy for years, and in doing so it clears the way for a new era. Millionaire taxes, Young argues, could give states the funds to pay for infrastructure, education, and other social programs to attract a group of people who are much more mobile—the younger generation.
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Broke And Patriotic - Why Poor Americans Love Their Country

by Francesco Duina

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 Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they not risen up to demand more from a system that is failing them?In Broke and Patriotic, Francesco Duina contends that the best way to answer these questions is to speak directly to America''s most impoverished. Spending time in bus stations, Laundromats, senior citizen centers, homeless shelters, public libraries, and fast food restaurants, Duina conducted over sixty revealing interviews in which his participants explain how they view themselves and their country. He masterfully weaves their words into three narratives. First, America''s poor still see their country as the "last hope" for themselves and the world: America offers its people a sense of dignity, closeness to God, and answers to most of humanity''s problems. Second, America is still the "land of milk and honey:" a very rich and generous country where those who work hard can succeed. Third, America is the freest country on earth where self-determination is still possible.This book offers a stirring portrait of the people left behind by their country and left out of the national conversation. By giving them a voice, Duina sheds new light on a sector of American society that we are only beginning to recognize as a powerful force in shaping the country''s future.
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Social Class And Changing Families In An Unequal America

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 This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.
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Snap Matters - How Food Stamps Affect Health And Well-Being

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 In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program''s fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the social science research necessary to guide policy is still nascent.In SNAP Matters, Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak bring together top scholars to begin asking and answering the questions that matter. For example, what are the antipoverty effects of SNAP? Does SNAP cause obesity? Or does it improve nutrition and health more broadly? To what extent does SNAP work in tandem with other programs, such as school breakfast and lunch? Overall, the volume concludes that SNAP is highly responsive to macroeconomic pressures and is one of the most effective antipoverty programs in the safety net, but the volume also encourages policymakers, students, and researchers to continue examining this major pillar of social assistance in America.
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Shifting Ethnic Boundaries And Inequality In Israel - Or, How The Polish Peddler Became A German Intellectual

by Aziza Khazzoom

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 Explores the process and rationale of the emergence of ethnic identity to investigate how and why ethnic groups exclude each other, looking specifically at the case of racial and ethnic group identity formation in the early years of Israeli statehood.
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New Gilded Age - The Critical Inequality Debates Of Our Time

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 Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality.
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Making The Transition - Education And Labor Market Entry In Central And Eastern Europe

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 Provides the first large-scale analysis of the impact social transformation has had on young people in their transition from school to work in Central and Eastern European countries.
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Income Inequality - Economic Disparities And The Middle Class In Affluent Countries

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 This volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.
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Improving Learning Environments - School Discipline And Student Achievement In Comparative Perspective

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 This book provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates.
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Gendered Trajectories - Women, Work, And Social Change In Japan And Taiwan

by Wei-Hsin Yu

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 Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century.
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Dividing The Domestic - Men, Women, And Household Work In Cross-National Perspective

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 With innovative cross-national analyses by leading international scholars, Dividing the Domestic extends a rich tradition of sociological research on housework and gender to reveal how a country's culture and policies influence couples' private lives.
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Determined To Succeed? - Performance Versus Choice In Educational Attainment

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 An assessment of the relative importance of previous school performance and choice in creating social background inequalities in educational attainment.
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Creating Wealth And Poverty In Postsocialist China

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 Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.
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Contested Welfare States - Welfare Attitudes In Europe And Beyond

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 This book explores citizen's attitudes toward welfare policies across European countries and offers critical insights into the public legitimacy of welfare state reform.
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Class And Power In The New Deal - Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, And The Liberal-Labor Coalition

by G. William Domhoff e Michael J. Webber

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 This book provides a new perspective on the origins of the three most important New Deal policies-the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act-while examining the strengths and weaknesses of historical institutionalism, Marxism, protest-disruption theory, and non-Marxian class-dominance theory.
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Broke - How Debt Bankrupts The Middle Class

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 Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America.
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Juridical Humanity - A Colonial History

by Samera Esmeir

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 This book explores Egypt's legal history under British rule, revealing the centrality of the "human" to Egyptian legal and colonial history.
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The Social Imperative - Race, Close Reading, And Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Paula L. Moya

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 This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
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Passive Revolution - Absorbing The Islamic Challenge To Capitalism

by Cihan Tugal

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 While Islamic politics pose a challenge to capitalism in some parts of the world, they have actually advanced capitalism and democracy in Turkey. This work looks closely at this transition in Turkey, and examines why this shift has not taken place in Egypt and Iran.
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Victory For Hire - Private Security Companies' Impact On Military Effectiveness

by Molly Dunigan

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 This book examines how private security contractors or analogous historical forces affect democracies' military effectiveness and likelihood of success in warfare across different deployment scenarios, and, in doing so, illustrates both theoretical and policy-relevant implications of the increasing use of private security forces by modern democracies.
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On Flexibility - Recovery From Technological And Doctrinal Surprise On The Battlefield

by Meir Finkel

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 On Flexibility presents a force planning concept that will enable armies to cope with the growing diversity of battlefield requirements, and especially with technological and doctrinal surprises, through applied adaptability and flexibility, minimizing the over dependence on intelligence and prediction involved in this process today.
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The Myth Of Millionaire Tax Flight - How Place Still Matters For The Rich

by Cristobal Young

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