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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
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By Tim J. Wise
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9780872865211 | 1 edition (City Lights Books, January 10, 2012), cover price $14.95

Keeping Up With the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930
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By Susan J. Matt
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9780812236866 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $49.95

The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750-1900
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Product Description: With the decline in the size of our industrial work force and the rise of the service occupations, the professions today are prominent models for a singular kind of social position. The professions and "professionalism" seem to offer an escape from vexing supervision at work as well as from some of the depersonalization and uncertainty of markets and bureaucracies...read more
By Samuel Haber
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9780226311739 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 27, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: With the decline in the size of our industrial work force and the rise of the service occupations, the professions today are prominent models for a singular kind of social position.

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