The not so free market
The American class system
The Okies, a case study
Class traits
One nation under God
The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings
Christianity and predestination comes to America
The early history
The revivalist movement
The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes
Other American working-class Christian movements
The ghetto complex
Christianity vs. science and modernism
Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict
The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists
Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture
The first sexual revolution
Prohibition
War on the working class: the war on drugs
The Christian conservatives take control of American politics
More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates
Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement
Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary
Father knows best, Christianity vs. women
Class and the gay movement
Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam
Conclusions about class and Christianity
Class and the military
Health and the working class
The geography of class
Income distribution
American poverty
The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility
Anomie: the price of upward mobility
Education, intelligence and middle-class bias
The graying of working-class America
Class and race
Gentrification
Self-cleaning ovens
A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit
The credit union movement
A sad story
Nonprofits and the community economic development movement
More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification
Transportation and class
In the hood
Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets
Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis
Greed, stupidity and arrogance
Conclusion: The Americans slave class.