Introduction: Approaches to Social Problems -- Pt. 1. Corporate Power -- 1. Getting Corporations Off the Public Dole / Janice Shields -- 2. Smoke Screen / Philip Hilts -- 3. The Grand Bazaar / William Greider -- 4. Missing from the News / Ben H. Bagdikian -- Pt. 2. Economic Crisis -- 5. Losing Out to Mexico / Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele -- 6. When You Stop, You Die: The Human Toll of Unemployment / Thomas J. Cottle -- 7. The Company as Family, No More / N. R. Kleinfield -- 8. The License for Financial Devastation / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Pt. 3. Inequality -- 9. Top Heavy / Edward N. Wolff -- 10. Doing Poorly: The Real Income of American Children in Comparative Perspective / Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding -- 11. Day by Day: The Lies of Homeless Women / Elliot Liebow -- 12. The Underclass Label / Herbert J. Gans -- Pt. 4. Racism -- 13. American Apartheid / Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton -- 14. Measuring Employment Discrimination / Marc Bendick, Jr., Charles W. Jackson and Victor A. Reinoso -- 15. Immigration to the Burn Zone / Roberto Suro -- 16. Asian Americans: The Myth of the Model Minority / Ronald Takaki -- Pt. 5. Sexism -- 17. The Wages of the Backlash / Susan Faludi -- 18. Learning Silence / Peggy Orenstein -- 19. "Fetal Rights": A New Assault on Feminism / Katha Pollitt -- Pt. 6. The Family -- 20. Families on the Fault Line / Lillian B. Rubin -- 21. Time for Parenting / Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn -- 22. 'Til Death Do Us Part / Nancy Gibbs -- Pt. 7. The Environment -- 23. Why We Have Failed / Barry Commoner -- 24. Environmental Racism / Robert D. Bullard -- 25. The Heat Is On / Ross Gelbspan -- Pt. 8. The Workplace -- 26. How Labor Fares in Advanced Economies / Richard B. Freeman -- 27. The Forgotten Americans / John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy -- 28. The Political Economy and Urban Racial Tensions / William Julius Wilson -- Pt. 9. Health and Welfare -- 29. Excess Mortality in Harlem / Colin McCord and Harold P. Freeman -- 30. The Medically Uninsured: Will They Always Be with Us? / Steven A. Schroeder -- 31. Health Care in Crisis: Does Canada Have the Answer? / Consumer Reports -- 32. So How Did I Get Here? Growing Up on Welfare / Rosemary L. Bray -- Pt. 10. The Schools -- 33. Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Missouri / Jonathan Kozol -- 34. The Myth of Public School Costs / David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle -- 35. The Great School Sell-Off / Peter Schrag -- Pt. 11. Crime and Justice -- 36. Crime and Work / Elliott Currie -- 37. "Three Strikes and You're Out": A Debate / Jerome H. Skolnick and John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- 38. Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System / Marc Mauer and Tracy Huling -- 39. Workaday World, Crack Economy / Philippe Bourgois -- Pt. 12. Epilogue -- 40. Jobs for All / Shiela D. Collins, Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg -- 41. Planning for Economic Conversion / Seymour Melman and Lloyd J. Dumas -- 42. Seize the Day / Robert Heilbroner -- 43. A Global New Deal / Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh