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Title: One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Since the mid-twentieth-century America has experienced two great social movements: the civil rights movement and the women's movement. Although neither reached all its goals, each achieved major successes. Yet, in the years of their greatest accomplishments, Americans became massively more unequal. How and why did this happen? One Nation Divisible clarifies why America remains one nation divisible, what those divisions are, and the powerful role of government in both mitigating and exacerbating them.Through four themes - the paradoxical history of inequality, the multiple forms of diversity, the powerful influence of government, and the need to reformulate the ideas that guide thinking about great public issues - One Nation Divisible traces the impact of economic globalization at both ends of the century. It shows that today the nation is undergoing economic and social transformations as profound as the ones driven by the industrial revolution of past centuries. This book is the story of their consequences.

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Authors: Katz, Michael B.; Stern, Mark J.

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Press

Publisher Location: New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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