Durable Inequality
- ISBN-10
- 0520211715
- ISBN-13
- 9780520211711
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 299
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-01-31
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Charles Tilly
Description
Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/non-citizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another.
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