California Press: 1495 books
Race and the Invisible Hand
How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies...
When Mandates Work
Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage....
The Student Loan Mess
How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team—one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher—probes how we’ve reached the point at which student loan debt—now exceeding $1 trillion...
Tsukiji
The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji—the world's largest marketplace for seafood—is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists....
Indispensable and Other Myths
Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies’ fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return for...
Poverty in America
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living. Growing income inequality and the Great Recession have made the problem worse. In this thoroughly revised edition of...
Capitalism
The Future of an Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped...
Fast-Forward Family
Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily...
Food Politics
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories...
Pet Food Politics
The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste,...
Falling Behind
How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them,...
by Gayle Greene
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore. . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued. . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic...
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their...
Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them...