Title: Crisis in American institutions /
Authors: Skolnick, Jerome H.; Currie, Elliott
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Social problems; United States Social conditions; United States Social policy; United States Social policy
Contents: Pinto Madness / Mark Dowie -- The Food Monsters / Daniel Zwerdling -- When They Closed the Factory Gates: How Big Steel Scrapped a Community / John Logue -- Left Out: The Human Cost of the Collapse of Industrial America / Peter McGrath -- The Specter of Full Employment / Robert Lekachman -- Boomtown and Bust-town / Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison -- The Fading Dream: Economic Crisis and the New Inequality / Elliott Currie, Robert Dunn, and David Fogarty -- Keeping the Poor Poor / Paul Jacobs -- High on the Hog / Michael Kinsley -- Gimme Shelters -- and Cut My Taxes / Robert G. Kaiser -- Growing Up Black in America / Marian Wright Edelman -- A Piece of the Pie / Stanley Lieberson -- American Immigration Policy: How Strait the Gate? / Franklin S. Abrams -- The Longest War / Carol Tavris and Carole Offir -- The Fight for Pay Equity / Peggy Simpson -- Women and Poverty / National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity -- Discrimination and Sexual Preference / Craig Christensen.