The making of the slave class - Carrier, Jerry (Algora Pub., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references
Glossary of Terms; Foreword; CONTENTS; Chapter 1. The Not So Free Market; Chapter 2. The American Class System; Chapter 3. The Okies, A Case Study; Chapter 4. Class Traits; Chapter 5. One Nation under God; 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
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