Classism Resources

Books

Chaos or Community? Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics
Holly Sklar - South End Press - 1995.

Downsize This!
Michael Moore - Crown Publishers - 1996.

Money: Who Has How Much and Why
Andrew Hacker - Scribner- 1997

The New American Poverty
Michael Harrington - Penguin Books - 1986.

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
William Julius Wilson and Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Readings

“Sharing the Pie,” “The Sinking Majority”
Steve Brouwer

“Who Owns How Much?”
James S. Heintz and Nancy Folbre

“Tired of Playing Monopoly?”
Donna Langston

“A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality”
Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro

“Racism or Solidarity?
Unions and Asian Immigrant Workers” Glenn Omatsu

“Two Hierarchies”
M. Edward Ransford

“Why Are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges?” John Larew

“Working-Class Students Speak Out”
Gwendolyn Lewis, Patricia Holland, and Kathleen Kelly

“So How Did I Get Here?”
Rosemary Bray

“On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty”
Melanie Scheller

“A Welfare Reform Program Based on Help for Working Parents”
Barbara Bergmann and Heidi Hartmann

“Responsibility for Reducing Poverty”
Peter B. Edelman

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