Complex Inequality or Making a Place for Community

Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy

Author: Leslie McCall

The American economy is in good shape: profits are soaring, employment is expanding, and technological advances abound. Yet inequality between genders and among races still exists. In Complex Inequality, Leslie McCall sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race, and class make in inequality. McCall's vision of inequality will offer a new way to approach and address the complexities of inequality.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Preface
	Introduction
1	Restructuring Inequalities: A Gender, Class, and Race Perspective	3
2	Configurations of Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race	29
3	Industrial and Postindustrial Configurations of Inequality: Detroit and Dallas	61
4	Breaking the Connection: Occupational Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap	91
5	The Difference Class Makes: The Gender Wage Gap among the College- and Non-College-Educated	119
6	The Difference Gender Makes: Wage Inequality among Women and among Men	145
7	The History and Politics of Inequality Reconsidered	175
	Technical Appendix	193
	Notes	203
	References	213
	Index	229

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Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era

Author: Thad Williamson

Making a Place for Community argues that misguided politics at the local, state and national level have damaged local community life in the United States. Such policies not only undermine America's long-term economic health, they weaken the basis of local democracy. In the absence of a sustained policy commitment to stabilize the economic basis of healthy communities, isolated attempts to "revitalize" downtown or strengthen community values will remain hopelessly inadequate.

Grounded in decades of research, this work offers brilliant solutions that defy conventional wisdom. Without busting the budget and halting development, the authors' smart new policies and grass-roots solutions, from land trusts to local ownership, show how to reign in sprawl and anchor jobs in the community.

Benjamin Barber

An indispensable primer for the new century..

Publishers Weekly

One of the basic tensions within capitalism, argue the three political scientist authors, is between the desire "to preserve, sustain, and strengthen geographically defined communities over time" and the opposing, usually economic, idea that "public policy should seek to facilitate individual and business mobility, no matter what the costs." They pinpoint three "threats" that towns and cities face: the increase in globalization and free trade, the instability of securing and keeping jobs in a specific locality, and the rapid increase of urban sprawl. While filled with copious facts, data and economic theory, the book never loses sight of, and is driven by, its deeply humanitarian purpose-"the principle of nurturing just, sustainable, and secure communities" both in the U.S. and abroad. Holding to that principle requires, the authors argue, radically revising a foundation of contemporary economic thinking-that business interests necessarily will eventually serve humanitarian ones. (Sept. 16) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.