D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, the last as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. Janis E. Johnston received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University, where she is currently working as an adjunct instructor.

“This important book shows the significance of social class for understanding inequality and its consequences. Students will find this collection of readings very accessible.” —Leonard Beeghley, University of Florida “Takes the field beyond staid formulations about “stratification” to the panoply of often-neglected issues of class formation, class fractures, class cultures, class politics, and class struggle. The selections are bold, provocative and politically astute. Eitzen’s critical approach brings home the issues in a way that will help reach studens, even as it raises the intellectual bar.” —Jonathan Cutler, Wesleyan University

• Part I: Dimensions of Social Stratification Chapter 1: Social Class in America Chapter 2: The Inequality Gap Chapter 3: The Disappearing Middle Chapter 4: Social Mobility Part II: The Consequences of Class Chapter 5: Work Chapter 6: Health Care Chapter 7: Education Chapter 8: Justice and Injustice Chapter 9: Natural Disasters Chapter 10: Unequal Sacrifice in War Chapter 11: Environmental Classism Part III: Reducing Inequality Chapter 12: Progressive Solutions for Reducing Inequality

D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, the last as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. Janis E. Johnston received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University, where she is currently working as an adjunct instructor.

“This important book shows the significance of social class for understanding inequality and its consequences. Students will find this collection of readings very accessible.” —Leonard Beeghley, University of Florida “Takes the field beyond staid formulations about “stratification” to the panoply of often-neglected issues of class formation, class fractures, class cultures, class politics, and class struggle. The selections are bold, provocative and politically astute. Eitzen’s critical approach brings home the issues in a way that will help reach studens, even as it raises the intellectual bar.” —Jonathan Cutler, Wesleyan University

• Part I: Dimensions of Social Stratification Chapter 1: Social Class in America Chapter 2: The Inequality Gap Chapter 3: The Disappearing Middle Chapter 4: Social Mobility Part II: The Consequences of Class Chapter 5: Work Chapter 6: Health Care Chapter 7: Education Chapter 8: Justice and Injustice Chapter 9: Natural Disasters Chapter 10: Unequal Sacrifice in War Chapter 11: Environmental Classism Part III: Reducing Inequality Chapter 12: Progressive Solutions for Reducing Inequality

D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, the last as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. Janis E. Johnston received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University, where she is currently working as an adjunct instructor.

“This important book shows the significance of social class for understanding inequality and its consequences. Students will find this collection of readings very accessible.” —Leonard Beeghley, University of Florida “Takes the field beyond staid formulations about “stratification” to the panoply of often-neglected issues of class formation, class fractures, class cultures, class politics, and class struggle. The selections are bold, provocative and politically astute. Eitzen’s critical approach brings home the issues in a way that will help reach studens, even as it raises the intellectual bar.” —Jonathan Cutler, Wesleyan University

• Part I: Dimensions of Social Stratification Chapter 1: Social Class in America Chapter 2: The Inequality Gap Chapter 3: The Disappearing Middle Chapter 4: Social Mobility Part II: The Consequences of Class Chapter 5: Work Chapter 6: Health Care Chapter 7: Education Chapter 8: Justice and Injustice Chapter 9: Natural Disasters Chapter 10: Unequal Sacrifice in War Chapter 11: Environmental Classism Part III: Reducing Inequality Chapter 12: Progressive Solutions for Reducing Inequality