Product Description: As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth...read more

Product Description: This book explores the organizational consequences of the attempt to abolish authority. Based on a study of two alternative high schools, it examines the ways organizations without formal authority coordinate and control social life.