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Class in America [Three Volumes]
An Encyclopedia
 Robert E. Weir, ed.

0-313-33719-5/978-0-313-33719-2

Description
This A-Z encyclopedia, the first to focus on class in the United States, surveys the breadth of class strata throughout our history, cross-discipline, for high school students to the general public.

Reviews:
-This resource is a great reference for anyone who wants a better understanding of many social or economic terms; terms that are often used in the press with an assumption of knowledge or understanding by the reader. These books will inform those who want to know the background or more complete context of a topic. The audience is intended to be general, not advanced researchers. The goal of explaining important social concepts is admirably met. This Greenwood Press title is highly recommended for large high school, most public, and all college or university libraries. —American Reference Books Annual
-With entries written from a wide spectrum of economic, historical, cultural, and sociological viewpoints, Class provides an informal, nonacademic introduction to understanding and discussing this thorny issue. The 525 alphabetically arranged entries run the gamut from Hurricane Katrina, Noam Chomsky, and the Bush family to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the working class, and food banks, and successfully balance historical perspective with manifestations of class in contemporary America....Students will welcome such an easily digested introductory resource. —School Library Journal
-Part sociology and part cultural history, this A-Z encyclopedia is the first to focus on class in the U.S. and is intended for a general audience. The 525 essays were written by 75 contributors, many of whom are distinguished in their fields....[p]rovides a thought-provoking look at class; asking such questions as who determines class; how people judge themselves in a class structure; and whether class is measured objectively, subjectively, or both. This would be a good purchase for public libraries, and though not aimed at the scholarly reader, it will provide an introduction for academic libraries. —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
About the Author
ROBERT E. WEIR is a Lecturer at Commonwealth College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Visiting Lecturer at Smith College, co-editor of the acclaimed Historical Encyclopedia of Labor (Greenwood, 2004), and a free-lance writer.
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