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Growing Apart

A Political History of American Inequality

Colin Gordon, Author
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1. Introduction

Wages and Earnings
Sidebar: Wage Ratios
Sidebar: Low Wage Work: Past, Present, Future
Incomes
Sidebar: Tracking Top Incomes
Wealth
Sidebar: Blue Collar Mortgages
Gender and Inequality
Race and Inequality
Sidebar: The Unfinished March
Geography, Segregation, and Inequality
Sidebar: Mapping The Unequal City
Inequality and Mobility

2.  Usual Suspects

The World is Flat? Globalization and Inequality
The Computer Did It: Technology and Inequality
Calling Ward Cleaver: Demographic Change and Inequality
Dispensing with the Usual Suspects

3.  Differences Matter: Public Policy and American Inequality

What Unions Did: Labor Relations and Labor Policy
Sidebar: The Lost City of Solidarity
The Sinking Floor: The Minimum Wage and Labor Standards
Sidebar: The New Deal Minimum Wage Cases
Sidebar: The Minimum Wage as a Living Wage
Sidebar: Wage Theft
Job Insecurity: Employment-Based Benefits
Sidebar: Tracking Health Plan Cost and Quality
A Tattered Safety Net: Social Policy
Sidebar: The Limits of Social Security
Sidebar: Measuring Poverty
Sidebar: Social Policy and Cliff Effects
Who Pays? Taxes
Sidebar: Donald Duck Pays His Taxes
Sidebar: Loopholes, Dodges, and Refunds
Sidebar: The Shell Game of State and Local Tax Breaks
Wall Street and Main Street: The Rise of Finance
Sidebar: What Do the Rich Do?
Sidebar: The Problem of "Rent"
Fatter Cats: Executive Pay and Corporate Governance
Sidebar: Measuring CEO Pay
Choosing Unemployment: Macroeconomic Policy
Sidebar: Unemployment v. Inflation
Sidebar: The Promise of Full Employment
Sidebar: Austerity Follies

4.  Conclusion

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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