Description
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism (2004) won the Best Book of the Year award from the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association. In this edition, Barbara H. Chasin updates and expands the previous material, adding and reflecting on the relevance of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis, access to firearms, and white supremacist movements. Written in a readable, accessible style, this book is a thoroughly documented account of the pertinence of connecting economic and political inequalities to dangers people face. The book emphasizes the importance of recognizing both structural and organizational violence, as well as discussing forms of interpersonal violence. Chasin analyzes relationships between social class, race/ethnicity, gender, and the three forms of violence.
Trade Review"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the political and economic roots to the inequality and violence we witness in the contemporary United States and puts it in historical perspective. Barbara H. Chasin writes with incredible lucidity, making complex concepts and connections easy to understand for readers of all levels."
-- Kristin Plys, University of Toronto Mississauga
Table of ContentsContents
Chapter 1. Defining Violence – Types of Violence
Chapter 2. Explaining American Violence – Five Approaches
Chapter 3. Inequality in the United States
Chapter 4. Social Class and Organizational Power
Chapter 5. Political Inequality – Corporations and Government
Chapter 6. Organizational and Structural Violence Against Consumers and Communities
Chapter 7. Health Issues as Structural and Organizational Violence
Chapter 8. Violence Against Workers and the Unemployed
Chapter 9. Criminal Violence: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Structural
Chapter 10. Experiencing Violence – Racial and Ethnic
Chapter 11. Gender Violence
Chapter 12. Militarism and Violence – Who Benefits?
Chapter 13. Militarism – Who Loses?
Chapter 14. Militarism – Structural and Interpersonal Violence
Chapter 15. Reducing the Casualties
