Intro -- Glossary of Terms -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The Not So Free Market -- Chapter 2. The American Class System -- Chapter 3. The Okies, a Case Study -- Chapter 4. Class Traits -- A Very Personal Story -- Chapter 5. One Nation under God -- Class, Culture, Predestination and Christianity: How Christian Conservatives Divide the Working Class and Dominate America with an Anti-Working-Class Agenda -- Chapter 6. The European Roots of Christian Class Culture, Predestination and the Divine Rights of Kings -- Chapter 7. Christianity and Predestination Comes To America -- Chapter 8. The Early History -- Chapter 9. The Revivalist Movement -- Chapter 10. The Catholic Experience in Protestant America, and Growing Conflicts within the Working Classes -- Chapter 11. Other American Working-Class Christian Movements -- Chapter 12. The Ghetto Complex -- Chapter 13. Christianity vs. Science and Modernism -- Chapter 14. Jewish Impact on America, Anti-Semitism and More Class Conflict -- Chapter 15. The Ku Klux Klan & Other White Christian Supremacists -- Chapter 16. Christianity & Capitalism, the Creation of American Economic and Class Culture -- Chapter 17. The First Sexual Revolution -- Chapter 18. Prohibition -- Chapter 19. War on the Working Class: The War on Drugs -- Chapter 20. The Christian Conservatives Take Control of American Politics -- Chapter 21. More Politics and the Decline of the Liberals and Moderates -- Chapter 22. Christian Conservatives vs. the Civil Rights Movement -- Chapter 23. Christian Conservatives vs. the Judiciary -- Chapter 24. Father Knows Best, Christianity vs. Women -- Chapter 25. Class and the Gay Movement -- Chapter 26. Class Warfare: Christian Conservatives vs. the Working Class Poor -- Chapter 27. Christianity vs. Islam -- Chapter 28. Conclusions about Class and Christianity -- Chapter 29. Class and the Military.

Chapter 30. Health and the Working Class -- Chapter 31. The Geography of Class -- Chapter 32. Income Distribution -- Chapter 33. American Poverty -- Chapter 34. The Middle Class and the Myth of Upward Class Mobility -- Chapter 35. Anomie: The Price of Upward Mobility -- Chapter 36. Education, Intelligence and Middle-class Bias -- Chapter 37. The Graying of Working-Class America -- Chapter 38. Class and Race -- Chapter 39. Gentrification -- Chapter 40. Self-Cleaning Ovens -- Chapter 41. A Brief History of Banking and the Working Class, No Shoes, No Shirt, No Credit -- Chapter 42. The Credit Union Movement -- Chapter 43. A Sad Story -- Chapter 44. Nonprofits and the Community Economic Development Movement -- Chapter 45. More Middle-Class Bias, New Urbanism, and More Gentrification -- Chapter 46. Transportation and Class -- Chapter 47. In the Hood -- Chapter 48. Housing, Mortgage Lending and Secondary Markets -- Chapter 49. Manipulation and Madness: The Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis -- Chapter 50. Greed, Stupidity, and Arrogance -- Conclusion: The American Slave Class -- Bibliography.

You can only be a king if you have many peasants. You can only have the super-rich if you have many who are poor. And this is the basis for class. A nationally recognized instructor in class, race, American culture, economic development and poverty issues, Jerry Carrier offers the personal story of a working class man's early life in poverty combined with a very cogent dissection of the signals and mechanisms that create and maintain the class system in the United States which determines who will prosper and who will fail.

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