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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
ix, 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes, putting forward ideas that were an affront to many at the time. His wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, is credited with co-authoring the essay. The Subjection of Women puts forward a detailed and passionate opposition to the social and legal inequalities imposed on women by society. Mill saw that he was going against the grain of the time, but argued
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system in America look like? In The Socialist Manifesto , Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's history since the mid-1800s...
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Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society? Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of how capitalism works, how it limits the power of working and oppressed people, and how to overcome those limits. The capitalist...
Author
Publisher
BK Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 169 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive economy we live with now enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet....
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
1st ed., pbk. print ed.
Physical Desc
x, 86 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his books Somebodies and Nobodies and All Rise, Robert Fuller exposed rankism-abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. In Dignity for All, Fuller and Pamela Gerloff offer a concise, action-oriented guide to the concrete steps we can take to eradicate it. They focus on us as individuals-how we can recognize rankism in our own experiences, even in ourselves, and how, on a day-to-day basis, we can help others...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
l, 248 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radial John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform with those of the majority. Written...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Enl. ed.,
Physical Desc
xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book, first published in 1973, presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements.
13) Sex equality
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
c1977
Physical Desc
vi, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 504 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The thesis is simple: Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix this problem. But the labor movement of today has failed to enable enough individuals to join unions. Thus, organized labor's powerful potential is being wielded incompetently. And what is happening inside of organized labor will-far more than most people realize-determine the economic and social course of American life...
Publisher
DK, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Presents a collection of seventeen essays that explore what being an ally is, needing an ally, and showing up for friends and strangers.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vii, 142 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Piketty wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. Piketty begins by explaining how inequality evolves and how economists measure it. In subsequent chapters, he explores variances in income and ownership of capital and the variety of policies used to reduce these gaps. Along the way, with characteristic clarity and precision,...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 384 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers new policies in technology, employment, social security, capital sharing, and taxation that intend to narrow the income gap, defending them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction.
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