How Much Inequality, Poverty, Economic Insecurity, and Mobility Is There? And Why?

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1 Stratification Reading List University of Arizona Department of Sociology (updated July 2013) How Much Inequality, Poverty, Economic Insecurity, and Mobility Is There? And Why? Alderson, Arthur S. and François Nielsen "Globalization and the Great U-Turn: Income Inequality Trends in 16 OECD Countries." American Journal of Sociology 107: Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez "The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective." Working Paper National Bureau of Economic Research. Bian, Yanijie, R.L.Breiger, D. Davis, J. Galaskiewicz "Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China." Social Forces 83: Brady, David "Rethinking the Sociological Measurement of Poverty." Social Forces 81: Dahrendorf, Ralf Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Stanford University Press. Preface and chapters 4-6. Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. DiPrete, Thomas A "Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the United States." American Journal of Sociology 108: Domhoff, G. William The Powers That Be. Vintage. Preface and chapters 1, 3. Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein "Welfare, Work, and Economic Survival Strategies." American Sociological Review 61: Eliason, Scott, Robin Stryker and Eric Tranby "The Welfare State, Family Policies and Women's Labor Market Participation: Combining Fuzzy-Set and Statistical Methods to Assess Causal Relations and Estimate Causal Effects." Pp in Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis, edited by Lane Kenworthy and Alex Hicks. Palgrave MacMillan. Esping-Andersen, Gøsta The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton University Press. Pp Esping-Andersen, Gøsta "Sociological Explanations of Changing Income Distributions." American Behavioral Scientist 50:

2 -2- Gangl, Markus "Income Inequality, Permanent Incomes, and Income Dynamics: Comparing Europe to the United States." Work and Occupations 32: Grant, Don and Michael Wallace "The Political Economy of Manufacturing Growth and Decline across the American States, " Social Forces 73: Grusky, David B "What To Do About Inequality." Boston Review, March-April: Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson "Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States." Politics and Society 38: Hollister, Matissa "Employment Stability in the U.S. Labor Market: Rhetoric versus Reality." Annual Review of Sociology 37: Iceland, John and Kurt Bauman "Income Poverty and Material Hardship." Journal of Socio- Economics 36: Jencks, Christopher Rethinking Social Policy. Harvard University Press. Introduction and chapter 2. Kenworthy, Lane "Sources of Equality and Inequality: Wages, Jobs, Households, and Redistribution." Chapter 3 in Jobs with Equality. Oxford University Press. Kenworthy, Lane "Growth Is Good for the Poor, if Social Policy Passes It On." Chapter 2 in Progress for the Poor. Oxford University Press. Korpi, Walter and Joakim Palme "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries." American Sociological Review 63: Lin, Ken-Hou and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey "Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, " American Journal of Sociology 118: Mandel, Hadas and Moshe Semyonov "Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries." American Sociological Review 70: Marx, Karl. In Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. "Alienation and Social Classes," pp "Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism," pp "Ideology and Class," p "Value and Surplus Value," pp Mishel, Lawrence, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, and Heidi Shierholz The State of Working America. 12th Edition. ILR Press. Mills, C. Wright The Power Elite. Oxford University Press. Chapters 1 and 12. Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition.

3 -3- Moller, Stephanie, David Bradley, Evelyne Huber, François Nielsen, and John D. Stephens "Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies." American Sociological Review 68: Morris, Martina and Bruce Western "Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century." Annual Review of Sociology 25: Oskarsson, Sven "Divergent Trends and Different Causal Logics: The Importance of Bargaining Centralization When Explaining Earnings Inequality Across Advanced Democratic Societies." Politics and Society 33: Parkin, Frank Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique. Columbia University Press. Chapters 4-5. Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. Portes, Alejandro, "The Resilient Importance of Class: A Nominalist Interpretation." Pp in Political Power and Social Theory, edited by Diane E. Davis. JAI Press. Rose, Stephen J. and Scott Winship "Ups and Downs: Does the American Economy Still Promote Upward Mobility?" Economic Mobility Project. Tilly, Charles Durable Inequality. University of California Press. Pp Weber, Max. In Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. "Class, Status, and Party," pp "Status Groups and Classes," pp "Open and Closed Relationships," Weeden, Kim A., and David B. Grusky "The Case for a New Class Map." American Journal of Sociology 111: Western, Bruce, Dierdre Bloome, and Christine Percheski "Inequality among American Families with Children, " American Sociological Review 73: Western, Bruce, Dierdre Bloom, Benjamin Sosnaud, and Laura Tach "Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification." Annual Review of Sociology. Western, Bruce and Jake Rosenfeld "Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality." American Sociological Review 76: Whelan, Christopher T., Richard Layte, and Bertrand Maitre "Understanding the Mismatch between Income Poverty and Deprivation: A Dynamic Comparative Analysis." European Sociological Review 20: Wright, Erik Olin Class Counts. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-3, 17. Wright, Erik Olin and Rachel Dwyer "The Patterns of Job Expansions in the United States: A Comparison of the 1960s and 1990s." Socio-Economic Review 1:

4 -4- Who Ends Up Where in the Distribution? And Why? Alexander, Karl L., Doris R. Entwisle, and Linda Steffel Olson "Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap." American Sociological Review 72: Althauser, Robert "Internal Labor Markets." Annual Review of Sociology 15: Baron, James N "Organizational Perspectives on Stratification." Annual Review of Sociology 10: Baron, James N. and William T. Bielby "Bringing the Firm Back In." American Sociological Review 45: Bertaux, Daniel and Isabelle Berteaux-Wiame "Heritage and Its Lineage: A Case History of Transmission and Social Mobility over Five Generations." Chapter 3 in Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility, edited by Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson. Oxford University Press. Blau, Peter and Otis Dudley Duncan The American Occupational Structure. Wiley. Pp , Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. Breiger, Ronald "The Social Class Structure of Occupational Mobility." American Journal of Sociology 87: Breiger, Ronald "Social Structure and the Phenomenology of Attainment." Annual Review of Sociology 21: Breen, Richard and Jon O. Jonsson "Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility." Annual Review of Sociology 31: Clogg, Clifford C., Scott R. Eliason, and Robert J. Wahl "Labor-Market Experiences and Labor- Force Outcomes." American Journal of Sociology 95: Conley, Dalton Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America. University of California Press. Chapters 1-2. Corcoran, Mary "Rags to Rags: Poverty and Mobility in the United States." Annual Review of Sociology 21: Correll, Shelley J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik "Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?" American Journal of Sociology 112: Duncan, Greg J. and Katherine Magnuson "Investing in Preschool Programs." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27(2): Duncan, Greg J. and Richard J. Murnane "The American Dream: Then and Now." Pp in Whither Opportunity? edited by Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane. Russell Sage Foundation and Spencer Foundation.

5 -5- Eliason, Scott R "An Extension of the Sorensen-Kalleberg Theory of the Labor Market Matching and Attainment Processes." American Sociological Review 60: Erikson, Robert and John H. Goldthorpe The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies. Clarendon Press. Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. Ermisch, John, Markus Jäntti, Timothy Smeeding, and James A. Wilson "What Have We Learned?" Pp in From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, edited by John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding. Russell Sage Foundation. Esping-Andersen, Gøsta "Unequal Opportunities and the Mechanisms of Social Inheritance." Pp in Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe, edited by Miles Corak. Cambridge University Press. Farkas, George "Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits and Behaviors in Stratification Processes." Annual Review of Sociology 29: Featherman, David and Robert Hauser Opportunity and Change. Academic Press. Chapters 1 and 5. Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. Fernandez, Roberto M. and Roman V. Galperin "The Causal Status of Social Capital in Labor Markets." MIT Sloan Research Paper. Fisher, Claude, et al Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Princeton University Press. Chapters 1-5. Gennetian, Lisa A., Jens Ludwig, Thomas McDade, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu "Why Concentrated Poverty Matters." Pathways, Spring: Gerber, Ted "Structural Change and Post-Socialist Stratification: Labor Market Transitions in Contemporary Russia." American Sociological Review 67: Granovetter, Mark Getting a Job. University of Chicago Press. Chapters 1-2. Güveli, Ayse, Ruud Luijkx, Harry B.G. Ganzeboom "Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility of the Old and New Middle Classes in a Post-Industrial Society: Netherlands " Social Science Research 41: Güveli, Ayse, Ruud Luijkx, Harry B.G. Ganzeboom "Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility of the Old and New Middle Classes in a Post-Industrial Society: Netherlands " Social Science Research 41: Hipp, John R "Segregation through the Lens of Housing Unit Transition: What Roles Do the Prior Residents, the Local Micro-Neighborhood, and the Broader Neighborhood Play?" Demography 49: Hodson, Randy and Vincent Roscigno "Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complementary or Contradictory?" American Journal of Sociology 110:

6 -6- Hout, Michael Mobility Tables. Sage Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, No. 31. Sage Publications. Ishida, Hiroshi, K.H. Su, and Seymour Spilerman "Models of Career Advancement in Organizations." European Sociological Review 18: Kalleberg, Arne and Aage Sorensen "The Sociology of Labor Markets." Annual Review of Sociology 5: Keister, Lisa Getting Rich. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5. Lareau, Annette "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families." American Sociological Review 67: Lareau, Annette and Amanda Cox "Social Class and the Transition to Adulthood: Differences in Parents' Interactions with Institutions." Pp in Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America, edited by Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England. Stanford University Press. Leahey, Erin "Not by Productivity Alone: How Visibility and Specialization Contribute to Academic Earnings." American Sociological Review 72: Leahey, Erin, and Laura A. Hunter (in press). "Lawyers' Lines of Work: The Role of Specialization in the Income Determination Process." Social Forces. MacLeod, Jay Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Westview Press. Or pp in Grusky's Social Stratification, 2nd edition. Mayer, Susan E What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances. Harvard University Press. Chapters 1, 3, 9. Mouw, Ted "Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter?" American Sociological Review 68: Mouw, Ted and Arne Kalleberg "Occupations and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the United States." American Sociological Review. Pager, Devah and Lincoln Quillian "Walking the Talk? What Employers Say versus What They Do." American Sociological Review 70: Pebley, Anne R. and Narayan Sastry "Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children's Well-Being." Pp in Social Inequality, edited by Kathryn M. Neckerman. Russell Sage Foundation. Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca "Does Changing Neighborhoods Change Lives? The Chicago Gautreaux Housing Program." Pp in Social Stratification, 3rd edition, edited by David B. Grusky. Westview Press. Rosenfeld, Rachel "Job Mobility and Career Processes." Annual Review of Sociology 18:

7 -7- Sharkey, Patrick "Confronting the Inherited Ghetto: An Empirical Perspective." Pp in Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality. University of Chicago Press. Smith, Michael R "What is New in 'New Structuralist' Analyses of Earnings?" American Sociological Review 55: Sorensen, Aage B "Throwing the Sociologists Out? A Reply to Smith." American Sociological Review 55: Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Melvin Thomas, and Kecia Johnson "Race and the Accumulation of Human Capital across the Career: A Theoretical Model and Fixed- Effects Application." American Journal of Sociology 111: Torche, Florencia "Social Mobility in Chile in Comparative Perspective." American Sociological Review 70: Weeden, Kim "Why Do Some Occupations Pay More than Others? Social Closure and Earnings Inequality in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 108(1): Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit "Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration." American Journal of Sociology 111: Wilson, William Julius When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. Vintage. Introduction and chapters 1-5. What Are the Consequences of Stratification? Abramson, Corey M. Forthcoming. At the End of Inequality: How Race and Class Shape Seniors' Final Years. Harvard University Press. Chapters??. Frank, Robert H "Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses." American Economic Review 95 (Papers and Proceedings): Gilens, Martin "The Preference/Policy Link." Pp in Affluence and Influence. Princeton University Press. Leigh, Andrew, Christopher Jencks, and Timothy M. Smeeding "Health and Economic Inequality." Pp in The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, edited by Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy M. Smeeding. Oxford University Press. McCall, Leslie "Thinking About Income Inequality." Pp in The Undeserving Rich. Cambridge University Press. Wilkinson, Richard G. and Kate E. Pickett "Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction." Annual Review of Sociology 35: