Class Struggles In America

Author : Benjamin I. Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226644561
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class War? written by Benjamin I. Page and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America’s fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. At every income level and in both major political parties, majorities embrace conservative egalitarianism—a philosophy that prizes individualism and self-reliance as well as public intervention to help Americans pursue these ideals on a level playing field. Drawing on hundreds of opinion studies spanning more than seventy years, including a new comprehensive survey, Page and Jacobs reveal that this worldview translates to broad support for policies aimed at narrowing the gap between rich and poor and creating genuine opportunity for all. They find, for example, that across economic, geographical, and ideological lines, most Americans support higher minimum wages, improved public education, wider access to universal health insurance coverage, and the use of tax dollars to fund these programs. In this surprising and heartening assessment, Page and Jacobs provide our new administration with a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues our nation.

Author : Algie Martin Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggles in America written by Algie Martin Simons and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Brill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145161201X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Warfare written by Steven Brill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate. In it the author takes a look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children, and points the way to reversing that failure.

Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914386155
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Class Conflict written by Joel Kotkin and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Mathews
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle written by Jay Mathews and published by Crown. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, New York, as his primary case study, Mathews examines the realities of the top public high schools in the United States. He offers "a penetrating view of the competing -- and often damaging -- forces that nurture the Ivy League goals of the academic and economic elite while often squashing the less glamorous ambitions of the rest."--Jacket.

Author : Algie Martin Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggles in America written by Algie Martin Simons and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Algie Martin Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598482761
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggles in America written by Algie Martin Simons and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. M. Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331006138
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggles in America (Classic Reprint) written by A. M. Simons and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Class Struggles in America Whether consciously or not every writer upon historical topics adopts some philosophy of social development and writes from the standpoint of some social class. He must do so if his work is to be anything more than a mere chronology, and even then a selection of events to be chronicled will be influenced by his attitude of mind and theory of society. Therefore I make no apology for having consciously written from the point of view of the working class, or for my belief that the socialist philosophy of history offers the true key to the progress of events. This philosophy is succinctly expressed in the quotation upon the opposite page in the statement that all history is the "history of class struggles." Since the appearance of private property some one social class has always owned and controlled the instruments by which wealth was produced and distributed. This class by virtue of its ownership becomes the social rulers and fashions social institutions in its interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Gus Bagakis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475991355
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Through the System written by Gus Bagakis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people think of class as a ranking system the more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power to the capitalist class that owns the factories, businesses, and corporations. While capitalism claims to promote efficiency, wealth, and freedom, it is also a system where the rich are getting richer, the earth and climate are being destroyed, and the poor get more and more desperate with each passing day. All of this is happening because we live in a system that stunts personality and corrupts human relations by pitting people against one another for economic gain. Through class analysis, Bagakis explains that we must take off the filters that we've been indoctrinated with, so that we can see how personal, social, and international problems develop. Primary among these false filters is the idea that we are all middle class and so there are no class conflicts in our society. Seeing through the System seeks to help students, workers, social activists, and those interested in understanding the reasons behind many of the problems in the world today. You can come to understand how our society was put together, how it works, and how it can be transformed.

Author : Paul E Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315292955
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coming Class War and How to Avoid it written by Paul E Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, accessible analysis of the worsening distribution of income and wealth in America.