Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.
Chapter 1. Class in America -- Chapter 2. Separate Realities: The Dream and the Iceberg -- Chapter 3. The Global Economy and the Privileged Class -- Chapter 4. The Invisible Class Empire -- Chapter 5. The Information Industry -- Chapter 6. Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming -- Chapter 7. The Pacification of Everyday Life -- Chapter 8. Class in the Twenty-first Century: Consolidation and Resistance