PRINCIPAL SOURCES

 

Allegretto, Sylvia. "The State of Working America's Wealth, 2011: Through Volatility

and Turmoil, the Gap Widens." Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper

No.292. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 2011.

http://www.epi.org/publication/the_state_of_working_americas_wealth_2011/.

 

Council of Economic Advisors. Economic Report of the President. Washington, D.C.:

US Government Printing Office, various years.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=ERP.

 

DeNavas-Walt, Carmen, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith. "Income,

Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011." Current

Population Reports No. P60-243. Washington, D.C.: US Census Bureau, 2012.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf.

 

Domhoff, G, William. "Who Rules America?" Last modified February 2013.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html.

 

Gottschalck, Alfred and Marina Vornovytskyy. "Changes in Household Net Worth

from 2005 to 2010." Random Samplings, 18 June 2012.

http://blogs.census.gov/2012/06/18/changes-in-household-net-worth- from-2005-to-2010/.

 

Gould, Elise and Hilary Wething. "U.S. Poverty Rates Higher, Safety Net Weaker Than

In Peer Countries." Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper No.339.

Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 2012.

http://www.epi.org/publication/ib339-us-poverty-higher-safety-net-weaker/.

 

McKernan, Signe-Mary, Caroline Ratcliffe, Eugene Steuerle, and Sisi Zhang. "Less

Than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation." Washington, D.C.:

Urban Institute, 2013.

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412802-Less-Than-Equal-Racial-Disparities-in-Wealth-Accumulation.pdf.

 

Morin, Rich and Seth Motel. "A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower

Classes." Pew Research Center. Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center's

Social & Demographic Trends, 2012.

 

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Factbook

2011: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics. Paris: OECD, 2012.

 http://www.oecd.org/publications/factbook/oecdfactbook2011-2012.htm.

 

U.S. Department of Commerce. "Middle Class in America." Washington, D.C.: Office of

the Vice President of the United States, 2010.

http://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/documents/migrated/Middle%20Class%20Report.pdf.

 

Wolff, Edward. "The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class."

Paper presented at the APPAM Fall Research Conference, Baltimore, MD,

November 8-10, 2012. https://appam.confex.com/appam/2012/webprogram/Paper2134.html.

 

Wolff, Edward. "Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising

Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze - an Update to 2007." Working Paper No.

589. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College,

2010. http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_589.pdf.

 

Wolff, Edward. "Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising

Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze." Working Paper No. 502. Annandale-on-

Hudson, NY: The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 2007.

http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_502.pdf.

 

Zweig, Michael. The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

 

 

Those seeking statistical information may be interested in the following sources:

 

INCOME AND INCOME INEQUALITY

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/statistics/index.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/inequality/index.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/index.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/ftnotes.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032012/hhinc/toc.htm

 

POVERTY

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/index.html

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/datasources/index.html

 

WEALTH

http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/

http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/data/dtables.html

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scf_2010.htm

 

Labor Force Statistics from Current Population Survey

http://www.bls.gov/cps/tables.htm

 

Unemployment Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#unemp

 

American Time Use Survey

http://www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#unemp

 

Introduction to Pew Mobility Project:

http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=596

 

Pew Trust on Socio-economic mobility, Selected Reports:

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Economic_Mobility/Economic_Mobility_in_America_Full.pdf

 

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Economic_Mobility/Economic_Mobility_US_World.pdf

 

http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/PCS_Assets/2012/Pursuing_American_Dream.pdf

 

http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/PCS_Assets/2008/PEW_EMP_PATHWAYS(1).pdf

 

 

SUGGESTED READING/SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CLASS

 

Aronowitz, Stanley. How Class Works: Power and Social Movement. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

 

Brooks, David. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. New York: Touchstone Books, 2001.

 

Brueggemann, John. Inequality in the United States: A Reader. New York: Pearson, 2011.

 

De Graaf, John, Thomas H. Naylor, and David Wann. Affluenza: The All-Consuming

 

Epidemic. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.

 

DeMott, Benjamin. The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

 

Domhoff, G, William. "Who Rules America?" Last modified February 2013.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html.

 

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. New York: Harper Collins, 1989.

 

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Holt, 2001.

 

Engels, Friedrich, and Karl Marx. The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert C.

 

Tucker. New York: Norton, 1978.

 

Gilson, Dave and Carolyn Perot. "It is the Inequality, Stupid." Mother Jones, March/April, 2011.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph.

 

Goad, Jim. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became  America's Scapegoats.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

 

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. New York:  Scribner, 1997.

 

Hooks, Bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters. New York: Routledge, 2000.

 

Iceland, John. Poverty in America: A Handbook. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of  California Press, 2006.

 

Jensen, Barbara. Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP/ILR, 2012.

 

Keister, Lisa. Wealth in America: Trends in Wealth Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

Keller, Bill, et al. Class Matters. New York: Times Books, 2005.

 

Kendall, Diana. Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America.

New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

 

Kenworthy, Lane. "It's Hard to Make It in America: How the United States Stopped Being the Land of

Opportunity." Foreign Affairs, November/December, 2012: 97-109.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138368/lane-kenworthy/its-hard-to-make-it-in-america.

 

Kingston, Paul W. The Classless Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

 

Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011.

 

Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1990.

 

Lubrano, Alfred. Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley,  2003.

 

Michaels, Walter Benn. The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore

Inequality. New York: Holt, 2007.

 

Newitz, Annalee, and Matt Wray, eds. White Trash: Race and Class in America. New York: Routledge, 1996.

 

Noah, Timothy. The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about

It. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

 

Pinkow, Linda, Sam Pizzigati, and the Dollars & Sense Collective, eds. The Wealth Inequality Reader.

4th ed. Boston: Dollars&Sense, 2012.

 

Sawhill, Isabel, and Sara McLanahan. "Opportunity in America: Introducing the Issue.

"The Future of Children. Vol 16., No. 2. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University and the

Brookings Institution, 2006. http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/docs/16_02_FullJournal.pdf.

 

Schutz, Eric. Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class. London: Routledge, 2012.

 

Shipler, David K. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. New York: Knopf, 2004.

 

Stiglitz, Joseph. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our

Future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.

 

Terkel, Studs. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About

What They Do. New York: The New Press, 1997.

 

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. Reissue ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

 

Weir, Robert E., ed. Class in America: An Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Westport, CT:  Greenwood, 2007.

 

Weis, Lois, ed. The Way Class Works: Readings on School, Family, and the Economy. New York: Routledge, 2008.

 

Wolff, Edward. Poverty and Income Distribution. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

 

Yates, Michael. Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003.

 

Zandy, Janet, ed. Liberating Memory: Our Work and our Working Class  Consciousness. New Brunswick,

NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

 

Zweig, Michael. The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret. Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 2000.

 

 

SUGGESTED READING / SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE ARTISTS

 

Benny Andrews

        Fox, Catherine. "News Obituary Article: Benny Andrews: 1930-2006: Native Georgian illustrated America's soul." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November, 2006. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=benny-andrews&pid=19912501#fbLoggedOut.

 

        "Michael Rosenfeld Gallery opens an exhibition of thirty-six works by Benny Andrews." Art Daily, March, 2013. http://artdaily.com/news/61498/Michael-Rosenfeld-Gallery-opens-an-exhibition-of-thirty-six-works-by-Benny-Andrews#.UkMroxaNaYV.

 

 

Tina Barney

 Brenson, Michael. "Review/Art; Tina Barney and Scenes Of Her Life, at the Modern." The New York Times, January 1990. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/26/arts/review-art-tina-barney-and-scenes-of-her-life-at-the-modern.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.

 

"150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin." Art Daily, January 2011. http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=44583#.UkMtlRaNaYV.

 

Cris Bruch

 Farr, Sheila. "Journey along with Bruch." The Seattle Times, July, 2007. http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2003810596_bruch29.html?referrer=digg.

 

 Kangas, Matthew. "Beyond the Street: Cris Bruch." Sculpture Magazine, March, 2009. http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag09/mar_09/bruch/bruch.shtml.

 

James Casebere

 Ho, Alexander. "Deconstructing Constructions: James Casebere's Works 1975-2010." TIME Lightbox, November, 2011. http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/15/james-caseberes-works-1975-2010/#1.

 

Juarez, Roberto. "James Casebere." BOMB Magazine, Fall 2001. http://bombsite.com/issues/77/articles/2422.

 

LaToya Ruby Frazier

 Jones, Raymond McCrea. "Fighting to save a family in a dying steel town." CNN Photos, March, 2013. http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/22/latoya-ruby-frazier/.

 

 O'Regan, Kirsten. "Kirsten O'Regan: These Dark Histories." Guernica, April, 2013. http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/kirsten-oregan-these-dark-histories/.

 

Jim Goldberg

 Bicker, Phil. "High and Low: Jim Goldberg's Works in Process." TIME Lightbox, September, 2012. http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/24/high-and-low-jim-goldbergs-works-in-process/#1.

 

 Colberg, Joerg. "Jim Goldberg and the Struggle of Photographic Storytelling." Conscientious Extended, November, 2011. http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/jim_goldberg_and_the_struggle_of_photographic_storytelling/.

 

Derrick Jones

 Linkon, Sherry Lee, and John Russo. "Border crossings: interdisciplinarity in new working-class studies." Labor History 53, no. 3 (2012): 373-387. http://www.academia.edu/3716494/Border_Crossings_Interdisciplinarity_in_New_Working-Class_Studies.

 

 "Shrinking Cities: [VIDEO] In Youngstown, a house now abandoned was a home." Blueprint America, May, 2011. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/uncategorized/shrinking-cities-but-how-does-a-house-come-to-fall/1219/.

 

Steve Lambert

 Hanley, Sarah. "Lower East Side Printshop's Special Edition Catalog Essay: Steve Lambert." LES Printshop, August, 2010. http://visitsteve.com/news/press/les-printshop-catalog-essay/.

 

 Leopold, Shelley. "Political Prankster Steve Lambert Brings His Interactive Signs to Charlie James Gallery." LA Weekly, September, 2012. http://www.laweekly.com/2012-09-20/art-books/steve-lambert-charlie-james-gallery/.

 

Nikki S. Lee

 Kino, Carol. "Now in Moving Pictures: The Multitudes of Nikki S. Lee." The New York Times, October, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/arts/design/01kino.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

 

 Lee, John H. "Nikki S. Lee: Becoming Someone Else." Theme Magazine, Spring, 2005. http://www.thememagazine.com/stories/nikki-s-lee/.

 

Peter Liversidge

 Lack, Jessica. "Artist of the week 25: Peter Liversidge." The Guardian, January, 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/21/artist-peter-liversidge.

 

 Wright, Karen. "In The Studio" Peter Liversidge, artist." The Independent, August, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/21/artist-peter-liversidge.

 

Mark Lombardi

 "The 'Conspiracy' Art of Marl Lombardi: Late Artist's Swirling Diagrams Chart Scandalous Relationships." NPR, November, 2003. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185.

 

 Lucarelli, Fosco. "Mark Lombardi's Narrative Structures and Other Mappings of Power Relations." Socks, August, 2012. http://socks-studio.com/2012/08/22/mark-lombardi/.

 

Irving Norman

 Nicolson-Singh, Saunthy. "Frightening 'cause it's true: Why Irving Norman's surreal paintings are the most socially relevant exhibit the Crocker's had in years." Sacramento News and Review, September, 2006. http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/frightening-cause-its-true/content?oid=200719.

 

 Oisteanu, Valery. "Irving Norman." The Brooklyn Rail, November, 2008. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/11/artseen/irving-norman.

 

John O’Connor

 Aschheim, Eve. "John O'Connor with Eve Aschheim." The Brooklyn Rail, September, 2008.

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/art/in-conversation-john-oconnor.

 

 Pearson, Bruce. "John O'Connor." BOMB Magazine, Winter, 2011. http://bombsite.com/issues/114/articles/4710.

 

Michael Patterson-Carver

 Fletcher, Harrell. "Project: Michael Patterson-Carver—introduced by Harrell Fletcher." White Columns, March/April, 2007. http://whitecolumns.org/sections/exhibition.php?id=1091.

 

 Quagliata, Gail Victoria Braddock. "Michael Patterson-Carver- Loose Lips Do Sink Ships." The Brooklyn Rail, March, 2011. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/03/artseen/michael-patterson-carver-loose-lips-do-sink-ships.

 

Doug Rickard

 Rosenberg, David. "A Portrait of American Life on Google Street View." Slate, June, 2013. http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/06/05/doug_rickard_in_a_new_american_picture_a_photographer_examines_american.html.

 

 Stone, Tim. "A New American Picture: Doug Rickard's Google Street View road-trip." ABC Arts, May, 2013. http://www.abc.net.au/arts/blog/2013-head-on-festival/doug-rickard-a-new-american-picture/default.htm.

 

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

 "Exhibition: Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson." Brooklyn Museum, March, 2006. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/symphonic_poem/.

 

 Marantz, Sylvia and Kenneth. "Talking with Aminah Brand Lynn Robinson." American Library Association, January, 2004. http://www.ala.org/offices/resources/robinson.

 

Ward Shelley

Radon, Lisa. "Stop and Give Me 30: Ward Shelley." Portland Monthly: Culturephile, October, 2009. http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/culturephile-portland-arts/articles/art-wardshelley.

 

Rastogi, Nina. "Interview with 'History of Science Fiction' artist Ward Shelley." Slate, March, 2011. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/03/14/interview_with_history_of_science_fiction_artist_ward_shelley.html.

 

Jason Simon

 Asfour, Nana. "A Courageous Little Gallery Takes on MOMA." The New Yorker, June, 2012. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/a-courageous-little-gallery-takes-on-moma.html.

 

 Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review; Jason Simon." The New York Times, May, 2006. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800EED6113EF935A15756C0A9609C8B63.

 

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

 Feldman. Mark B. "Inside the Sanitation System: Mierle Ukeles, Urban Ecology, and the Social Circulation of Garbage." The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2009. http://www.uiowa.edu/~ijcs/waste/feldman.html.

 

 Wiesberg, Jessica. "The Hardworking Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles Is Here to Clean Up Your Mess." Tablet Magazine, July, 2013. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/138254/mierle-laderman-ukeles.

 

Carrie Mae Weems

 Bey, Dawoud. "Carrie Mae Weems." BOMB Magazine, Summer, 2009. http://bombsite.com/issues/108/articles/3307.

 

 "Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video." The Cleveland Museum of Art, June, 2013. http://www.clevelandart.org/events/exhibitions/carrie-mae-weems-three-decades-photography-and-video.

 

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