The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.

• The Meritocracy Myth, Fourth Edition
• Social Inequality in a Global Age
• Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later
• Social Inequality in a Global Age
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
• Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting (9th Edition)
• The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
• Family Theories: Foundations and Applications
• The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
• MERITOCRACY MYTH 3ED