Rigging the Game: How Inequality Is Reproduced in Everyday Life

by Michael Schwalbe

Book Overview

In Rigging the Game --a brief, accessible introduction to the study of inequality in American society--Michael Schwalbe investigates how inequality is both created and reproduced. Guided by the questions How did the situation get this way? and How does it stay this way?, Schwalbe tracks inequality from its roots to its regulation. In the final chapter, "Escaping the Inequality Trap," he also shows how inequality can be overcome. Throughout, Schwalbe's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195333004
• ISBN13: 9780195333008
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 5.4"