Schooling in capitalist America
Subtitle: educational reform and the contradictions of economic life
By: Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.
Contributors: Gintis, Herbert, joint author.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Educational change -- United States.; Education and state -- United States.; Capitalism -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: Beyond the Educational Frontier: The Great American Dream Freeze; label: Chapter 2
title: Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect; label: Chapter 3
title: At the Root of the Problem: The Capitalist Economy; label: Chapter 4
title: Education, Inequality, and the Meritocracy; label: Chapter 5
title: Education and Personal Development: The Long Shadow of Work; label: Chapter 6
title: The Origins of Mass Public Education; label: Chapter 7
title: Corporate Capital and Progressive Education; label: Chapter 8
title: The Transformation of Higher Education and the Emerging White-Collar Proletarian; label: Chapter 9
title: Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, and Educational Change; label: Chapter 10
title: Educational Alternative; label: Chapter 11
title: Education, Socialism, and Revolution