In 1976, when Daniel Bell first published The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, he predicted a vastly different world-one that would rely upon an economics of information, as opposed to the economics of goods that had existed up to then. Bell argued that the new society would not displace the old one but rather overlay it in profound ways, much as industrialization continues to coexist with the agrarian sectors of our society.
We examine the effects of family background variables and neighborhood peers on the behaviors of inner-city youths in a tight labor market using data from the 1989 NBER survey of youths living in low-income Boston neighborhoods.
The paper estimates both the real wages of male building craftsmen and
laborers in England for 1209-2003, and the wage premium associated with
skills. These estimates have implications for our understanding of both the
Malthusian era, and of the Industrial Revolution.
This study of social mobility within the developing class structures of modern industrial societies is based on a unique data-set constructed by the authors. It focuses on the Western and Eastern European experience of social and economic growth after the Second World War, but also examines the experiences of the United States, Australia, and Japan.
This study of social mobility within the developing class structures of modern industrial societies is based on a unique data-set constructed by the authors.
This article presents argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work.
Much literature on contemporary U.S. racial relations tends to view black middle-class life as substantially free of traditional discrimination. Drawing primarily on 37 in-depth inter- views with black middle-class respondents in several cities, I analyze public accommoda- tions and other public-place discrimination.
Non-governmental free food assistance is available to many low-income Americans through food pantries, yet many do not avail themselves of this assistance. As the monetary value of such assistance can be over $2,000 per year, non-use poses a puzzle from an economic standpoint.
This book injects a distinctive new note of dissent in the use of class to make sense of life in modern times. The authors present revealing arguments that demonstrate the limitations of class analysis; indeed, they clearly show how the class perspective has become a political straitjacket that obstructs an accurate understanding of contemporary social, cultural, and political processes.