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Publication Date: 1977
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Equality and Opportunity in America, 1800-1940
Pessen, Edward
Wilson Quarterly, 1, 5, 136-42, Aut 77
Maintains that the maldistribution of wealth and static mobility patterns which prevailed in the United States from 1800 to 1940 provide the social and economic basis for present-day inequality. Political reforms have had little effect on living standards, status, and opportunities of most Americans. For journal availability, see SO 505 871. (Author/DB)
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