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| A Troubled Society | |
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| Americans View Their Lives | |
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| Workaday Troubles | |
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| Latino and African Americans | |
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| The View from the Home | |
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| Problems with Gender Discrimination: Women Workers | |
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| Family Tragedies | |
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| Interpreting Lifersquo;s Troubles | |
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| Societal Decline: The Genuine Progress Indicator | |
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| People Working for Change: Some Recent Examples | |
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| The United Farm Workers Union | |
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| Clerical Workersrsquo; Unions | |
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| Striking for Better Conditions in the South | |
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| Protesting Toxic Pollution | |
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| Traditional Perspectives on Society and Social Problems | |
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| The European Background | |
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| Corporate Liberalism | |
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| Social Problems: The Durkheimian Tradition in the United States | |
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| Mainstream Social Science Views of Social Problems | |
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| A Critical Powerndash;Conflict Perspective | |
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| Background: The Thought of Karl Marx | |
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| Contemporary Class Perspectives | |
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| Perspectives Emphasizing Gender and Race | |
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| Conclusion: Some Working Propositions | |
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| Class Relations and the Problem of Inequality | |
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| Some Revealing Societal Snapshots | |
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| Plant Closings | |
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| Workplace Hazards | |
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| Five Million Rolling Fire Bombs | |
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| Toxic Chemicals in the Environment | |
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| How Are Classes Defined? | |
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| Some Lessons from the Snapshots | |
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| A Closer Look at Class Relations in Our Society | |
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| The Class Structure | |
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| The Capitalist Class | |
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| The Working Class | |
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| The Managerial Class | |
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| The Small-Business Class | |
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| Other Important Groups | |
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| The Corporate Structure | |
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| The State | |
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| Capitalism Large Corporations and the State: The Example of the Farm Crisis | |
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| Contrasting Views of Inequality | |
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| The Persisting Problem of Income Inequality | |
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| Patterns of Income Inequality The Very Rich | |
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| Effects of Income Inequality: Length and Quality of Life | |
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| Education and Income Inequality | |
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| Impact on Government | |
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| Workersrsquo; Real Incomes | |
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| A Two-Tiered Society? | |
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| The Inequality of Wealth | |
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| The Early Period | |
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| Wealth in Contemporary America | |
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| Families and Corporations | |
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| Taxation | |
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| Consequences of Income and Wealth Inequality | |
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| Sources of Capitalistsrsquo; Wealth | |
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| Mercantile and Plantation Capitalism (1700ndash;1850) | |
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| Industrial Capitalism (1850ndash;1890) | |
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| Early Monopoly Capitalism (1890ndash;1940) | |
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| Advanced (Late) Monopoly Capitalism (1940ndash;?) | |
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| Poverty Unemployment and Underemployment | |
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| Low Incomes and Poverty | |
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| The Extent and Character of Poverty | |
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| Questioning the Official Poverty Count | |
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