Editors Grusky and Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. This second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant.
David B. Grusky is professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His books include
Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective; Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics; and
Poverty and Inequality. Szonja Szelenyi has taught at Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin, and Cornell University. She is the author of
Equality by Design.