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.

Author: David Grusky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/15/2011
Pages: 784
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.24lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780813344843

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 102

About the Author
David B. Grusky is professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His books include Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective; Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics; and Poverty and Inequality.

Szonja Szelenyi has taught at Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin, and Cornell University. She is the author of Equality by Design.

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