The Education Trap

Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston

Cristina Viviana Groeger

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674249110

Publication Date: 03/09/2021

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384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

24 illus., 1 map

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Introduction: Education and Social Inequality
1. Nineteenth-Century Networks
2. Uplifting the “Unskilled”
3. Craft Power in the Industrial Workplace
4. Becoming Pink Collar
5. Professional Ladders
6. Placement in Corporate America
Conclusion: Schools, Inequality, and Worker Power
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2021 IPUMS USA Research Award, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota

Co-Winner, 2020 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press

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