Crisis in American Institutions

by Skolnick, Jerome H.; Currie, Elliott; Currie, Elliott

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9780673525130

ISBN10:

0673525139

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Pub. Date:

2/1/1997

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Pearson College Div

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Crisis in American Institutions provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. The text contains a breadth of articles that encompasses a review of the best of contemporary writing on American social problems. For the twelfth edition, approximately one-quarter of the readings are new, covering such current topics as problems of national security, corporate scandals, and white collar crime. Book jacket.

Preface

Introduction: Approaches to Social Problems

(16)

SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS

PART ONE CORPORATE POWER

(40)

1 Getting Corporations Off the Public Dole The poor aren't the only recipients of government largesse.

(8)

Janice Shields

2 Smoke Screen How cigarette companies try to hook the young.

(10)

Philip Hilts

3 The Grand Bazaar How private power undermines the purposes of government.

(11)

William Greider

4 Missing from the News How the media business shapes the news.

(7)

Ben H. Bagdikian

PART TWO ECONOMIC CRISIS

(38)

5 Losing Out to Mexico Where American jobs are going--and why.

(8)

Donald L. Barlett

James B. Steele

6 When You Stop, You Die: The Human Toll of Unemployment How jobless men feel about being made expendable.

(7)

Thomas J. Cottle

7 The Company as Family, No More In the era of downsizing, the relationship between corporations and their workers isn't what it used to be.

(10)

N. R. Kleinfield

8 The License for Financial Devastation How entrenched beliefs justify economic disorder.

(9)

John Kenneth Galbraith

PART THREE INEQUALITY

(44)

9 Top Heavy The concentration of wealth is at its highest levels since before World War II.

(6)

Edward N. Wolff

10 Doing Poorly: The Real Income of American Children in Comparative Perspective America's children are worse off than those of virtually every other industrial society.

105

(10)

Lee Rainwater

Timothy M. Smeeding

11 Day by Day: The Lives of Homeless Women Being homeless is hard work.

115

(10)

Elliot Liebow

12 The Underclass Label How fashionable labels distort our understanding of poverty.

125

(14)

Herbert J. Gans

PART FOUR RACISM

139

(42)

13 American Apartheid The persistence of segregation creates unique disadvantages for black Americans.

143

(7)

Douglas S. Massey

Nancy A. Denton

14 Measuring Employment Discrimination Some say job discrimination against minorities is a thing of the past. It isn't.

150

(13)

Marc Bendick, Jr.

Charles W. Jackson

Victor A. Reinoso

15 Immigration to the Burn Zone New opportunities for Hispanic immigrants are matched by new perils.

163

(11)

Roberto Suro

16 Asian Americans: The Myth of the Model Minority Lingering stereotypes hinder opportunity.

174

(7)

Ronald Takaki

PART FIVE SEXISM

181

17 The Wages of the Backlash How women really fare in today's economy.

183

(6)

Susan Faludi

18 Learning Silence How a "hidden curriculum" stifles girls in America's schools.

189

(9)

Peggy Orenstein

19 "Fetal Rights": A New Assault on Feminism How concern for the rights of the unborn may infringe on those of women.

198

Katha Pollitt

INSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS

PART SIX THE FAMILY

(224)

20 Families on the Fault Line Time, money, and child care are critical problems for working-class families.

213

(7)

Lillian B. Rubin

21 Time for Parenting The United States is the only major industrial country that fails to provide paid leaves for parents.

220

(9)

Sheila B. Kamerman

Alfred J. Kahn

22 'Til Death Do Us Part Why abused women sometimes kill.

229

(12)

Nancy Gibbs

PART SEVEN THE ENVIRONMENT

241

(24)

23 Why We Have Failed Trying to end pollution by cleaning up after the fact won't work. Only prevention will.

243

(4)

Barry Commoner

24 Environmental Racism Minorities are the worst victims of environmental pollution.

247

(9)

Robert D. Bullard

25 The Heat Is On Global warming sparks a "blaze of denial."

256

(9)

Ross Gelbspan

PART EIGHT THE WORKPLACE

265

(36)

26 How Labor Fares in Advanced Economies In many respects, American workers have it harder than their counterparts in Europe.

267

(8)

Richard B. Freeman

27 The Forgotten Americans The American ethos says that hard work will lead to a good life. For too many Americans, it isn't true.

275

(8)

John E. Schwarz

Thomas J. Volgy

28 The Political Economy and Urban Racial Tensions How massive unemployment destroys ghetto communities.

283

(18)

William Julius Wilson

PART NINE HEALTH AND WELFARE

301

(38)

29 Excess Mortality in Harlem Life expectancy is lower for men in Harlem, USA, than in Bangladesh.

305

(7)

Colin McCord, M.D.

Harold P. Freeman, M.D.

30 The Medically Uninsured: Will They Always Be with Us? Our national willingness to let millions go without health insurance distinguishes the United States from other developed countries.

312

(8)

Steven A. Schroeder

31 Health Care in Crisis: Does Canada Have the Answer? Consumer Reports Contrary to myths, Canadians have a health care system that works better than ours--and costs less.

320

(11)

32 So How Did I Get Here? Growing Up on Welfare A former recipient shatters myths about welfare.

331

(10)

Rosemary L. Bray

PART TEN THE SCHOOLS

339

(26)

33 Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Missouri The collapse of public education in the inner city.

341

(8)

Jonathan Kozol

34 The Myth of Public School Costs Spending for schooling is much less generous than many believe.

349

(7)

David C. Berliner

Bruce J. Biddle

35 The Great School Sell-Off The limits of school "choice."

356

(11)

Peter Schrag

PART ELEVEN CRIME AND JUSTICE

365

(48)

36 Crime and Work Does unemployment cause crime? Yes.

367

(10)

Elliott Currie

37 "Three Strikes and You're Out": A Debate Arguments, pro and con, on the usefulness of life sentences for repeat offenders.

377

(19)

Jerome H. Skolnick

John J. DiIulio, Jr.

38 Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System One in three is under the "supervision" of the criminal justice system.

396

(9)

Marc Mauer

Tracy Huling

39 Workaday World, Crack Economy Drug dealing as an equal opportunity employer for inner-city youth.

405

(8)

Philippe Bourgois

PART TWELVE EPILOGUE

413

40 Jobs for All A plan to put America to work.

417

(10)

Sheila D. Collins

Helen Lachs Ginsburg

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

41 Planning for Economic Conversion How to shift the post--Cold War economy to civilian needs.

427

(9)

Seymour Melman

Lloyd J. Dumas

42 Seize the Day The urgency of rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.

436

(5)

Robert Heilbroner

43 A Global New Deal Tackling the crises in American society will require changes in the international economy.

441

Richard J. Barnet

John Cavanagh

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