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Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the black middle class

Tác giả: Mary Pattillo-McCoy

Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary ...

Labor and the American community

Tác giả: Derek Curtis Bok, John T Dunlop

Introduction about democracy, union government and the interests of the members; The protection of minority interests; The administration of unions; Alternatives to economic conflict in the private sector.

Women and the economy

Tác giả: Saul D. Hoffman

Women and the Economy takes a balanced approach to exploring the issues facing women in today's society--family, work, and pay--from a modern economic perspective. Appropriate for students with a principles of economics or an intermediate microeconomics background, this text provides a ...

Economy/ society : markets, meanings, and social structure

Tác giả: Bruce G. Carruthers, Sarah Louise Babb

Economy/ Society is an accessible introduction to the ways in which economic exchanges are embedded in social relationships. Bruce Carruthers and Sarah Babb tackle big issues and real problems with analytical power and lively ideas. They offer rich and novel insights into such topics as ...

Adolescent mothers in later life

Tác giả: Frank F. Furstenberg Jr, J. Brooks-Gunn, S. Philip Morgan

This landmark study traces the life histories of approximately 300 teenage mothers and their children over a seventeen-year period. From interview data and case studies, it provides a vivid account of the impact of early childbearing on young mothers and their children. Some remarkable and ...