000888247 000__ 03940cam\a2200421\a\4500 000888247 001__ 888247 000888247 005__ 20210515173000.0 000888247 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000888247 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000888247 008__ 120928s2013\\\\enkd\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000888247 010__ $$z 2012037611 000888247 020__ $$z9781107027237 000888247 020__ $$z9781107699823 000888247 020__ $$z9781107348110 $$q(electronic book) 000888247 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC1139709 000888247 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL1139709 000888247 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10679195 000888247 035__ $$a(CaONFJC)MIL472145 000888247 035__ $$a(OCoLC)836864256 000888247 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000888247 043__ $$an-us--- 000888247 050_4 $$aHC110.I5$$bM374 2013 000888247 08204 $$a339.2/20973$$223 000888247 1001_ $$aMcCall, Leslie,$$d1964- 000888247 24514 $$aThe undeserving rich$$h[electronic resource] :$$bAmerican beliefs about inequality, opportunity, and redistribution /$$cLeslie McCall. 000888247 24614 $$aUndeserving rich :$$binequality, opportunity, and redistribution in American society 000888247 260__ $$aCambridge :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2013. 000888247 300__ $$axvii, 300 p. :$$bill. 000888247 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000888247 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: thinking about income inequality; 2. Beyond the opposition between opportunity and inequality: theories of beliefs about inequality from the nineteenth century to the present; 3. The emergence of a new social issue: media coverage of income inequality and social class in the United States, 1980-2010; 4. American beliefs about income inequality: what, when, who, and why; 5. Why do Americans care about income inequality? The role of opportunity; 6. Social policy preferences in the era of rising inequality; 7. Conclusion: a new era of beliefs about inequality. 000888247 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000888247 520__ $$a"Chapter One Introduction: Thinking about Income Inequality In the past decade, we have witnessed one sensational event after another connected in some way to rising income inequality. As I write, it is the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is not only demanding greater economic and social equality for the bottom ninety-nine against the top one "percenters" but coining a new set of class categories in the process. Almost a decade ago, when I began research on American beliefs about rising inequality, it was the scandals surrounding Enron that were making front page news, with the pension funds of workers and retirees evaporating into thin air as the coffers of executives mysteriously survived. In between Enron and Occupy Wall Street, there is no shortage of occasions to reflect on the state of income inequality in the U.S. -the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, the outsourcing of middle class jobs to Ireland and India, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis and the Great Recession. At each turn in the road, reporters and commentators concerned about rising income inequality but dismayed by the lack of political attention given to the issue declared that finally it would be taken seriously. And this says nothing of the events prior to the 2000s, several of which pointed the finger at rising inequality just as vehemently, as I show in my analysis of media coverage of income inequality in chapter 3. Yet nothing has changed. Income inequality continues its rise to heights unfathomable just a few generations ago. The late public intellectual and eminent Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell wrote in 1973 that earnings inequality "will be one of the most vexing questions in a post-industrial society." Heconomies of the past"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000888247 650_0 $$aIncome distribution$$zUnited States. 000888247 650_0 $$aEquality$$zUnited States. 000888247 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xEconomic conditions. 000888247 852__ $$bebk 000888247 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete $$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1139709$$zOnline Access 000888247 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:888247$$pGLOBAL_SET 000888247 980__ $$aEBOOK 000888247 980__ $$aBIB 000888247 982__ $$aEbook 000888247 983__ $$aOnline