Durable Inequality

by Charles Tilly

Book Overview

Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520221702
• ISBN13: 9780520221703
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"