America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring

by Carolyn Cummings Perrucci and Robert Perrucci

Book Overview

In America at Risk, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality. Taking data from a thirty-year period, Perrucci and Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant economic, political, and cultural institutions that cause the main social problems affecting Americans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742563693
• ISBN13: 9780742563698
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"