BOOKS CLASS ANALYSIS

 

Bullough, Oliver, Moneyland, Griffin, 2020

 

Codevilla, Angelo M., The Ruling Class, Republic Book Publishers; 2nd edition, 2023

 

Davis, Mike, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class, Verso, 2018

 

Formisano, Ron, American Oligarchy: The Permanent Political Class, University of Illinois Press, 2017

 

Frank, Robert, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, Crown, 2008

 

Friedman, Sam, Daniel Laurison, The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, Policy Press, 2020

 

Fussell, Paul, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Touchstone; Reissue edition, 1992

 

Gilbert, Dennis L., The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2020

 

Gilens, Martin, Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America, Princeton University Press, 2014

 

Hartmann, Thom, The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series), Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2021

 

Lareau, Annette, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later, University of California Press; Second Edition, With an Update a Decade Later edition, 2011

 

Marger, Martin, Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes, McGraw Hill, 2013

 

Mask, Deirdre, Address Book, Griffin, 2021

 

Mechanic, Michael, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All, Simon & Schuster, 2022

 

Mills, C. Wright and Alan Wolfe, The Power Elite, Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

 

Moody, Kim, On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War, Haymarket Books, 2017

 

Neiman, Garrett, a. k. Frimpong, Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America, Legacy Lit 2023

 

Phillips, Kevin, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, Broadway Books; Reprint edition, 2003

 

Reeves, Richard V., Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It, Brookings Institution Press, 2018

 

Shipler, David K., The Working Poor: Invisible in America, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Thompson, E. P., The Making of the English Working Class, Vintage, 1966

 

Thrasher, Steven W., The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, Celadon Books, 2024

  

Ungar-Sargon, Batya, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, Encounter Books, 2025

 

Wacquant, Loïc, The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge, Polity, 2022