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The question of how to incorporate women in class analysis and stratification research has been the topic of heated controversy in recent decades. Much of the debate has been about the conventional approach to research on social mobility and class analysis that assumes the family to be the unit of stratification and the family's class position to be determined independently of women's work position. Those defending the conventional view can show that research on the empirical validity of the conventional view provides partial support for it, and that its use in previous empirical research probably has not resulted in serious misrepresentations. In this article, I review the literature on these issues. I summarize the criticism and defense of the conventional view and review research that examines its empirical adequacy. This is followed by a discussion of alternative approaches to the determination of the family's class position.

"The United States boasts the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. Perhaps not coincidentally, mass incarceration has been a financial boon to the private prison industry. Privatization of prisons is seen by some as a solution to state governments' budget problems, but the mission of these for-profit companies is not necessarily aligned with the reform system. The diverse perspectives in this volume examine the history of private prisons in the United States, whether they are more concerned with rehabilitation or financial profit, and what impact they have on criminal justice laws and society at large"--

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Populist Communicative Process in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Story -- 1.2 Overview of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Disrupting Transitional and Established Democracy: The Stories and Contexts of UKIP and the Economic Freedom Fighters -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Comparing Populisms -- 2.3 South Africa: Democratic Fragility and Descriptive Representation -- 2.3.1 Democratic Conditions and Public Attitudes -- 2.3.2 The EFF's Sovereign Heartland -- 2.3.3 The EFF's Disruptions of the State of the Nation Address -- 2.4 The UK: Upheaval in Established Democracy and Active Representation -- 2.4.1 Democratic Conditions and Public Attitudes -- 2.4.2 UKIP's Sovereign Heartland -- 2.4.3 UKIP's Disruptions of the European Parliament -- 2.5 Chapter Summary -- References -- Bibliography of Cited Data -- Chapter 3: A Communication Approach to Political Populism: Ideology, Performance and Representation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Populism: Ideas, Performance, Process -- 3.2.1 Populism as Ideas -- 3.2.2 Populism as Performance -- 3.2.3 Populism's Core Features -- 3.2.4 Populism as Communicative Process: Ideology and Performance -- 3.3 Meaning-making and Political Representation -- 3.4 The Populist Representative Claim -- 3.4.1 Representative Claim-making -- 3.4.2 Disruptive Performance as Populist Claim-making -- 3.5 The Role of Context in Populist Representation -- 3.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part II: Populism as Ideology: Populism on Ideology -- Chapter 4: Populist Ideology and Communicative Process -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Structure of Populist Ideology -- 4.2.1 Populism's Thinness -- 4.2.2 Populism as a Bottom-Up Ideology -- 4.3 Populist Ideology as Communicative Process.

"According to UNICEF, human trafficking generates a staggering $32 billion in profits each year. Human trafficking takes place all around the world, affecting nearly every country, rich and poor. Women, girls, and migrants are extremely vulnerable to traffickers, who coerce them into sexual exploitation and forced labor. How can the international community allow such terrible criminal networks to flourish? This informative volume offers a diverse array of case studies, first-person accounts, and analyses from experts in the field to provide a full picture of what has been called a pandemic of the twenty-first century"--

"The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and proliferating war industry to wield undue influence, exploiting financial and legal structures, while co-opting Congress, academia and the media. Spiked with insights into how corporate boardrooms view the troops, overseas bases, and warzones, it assiduously delineates how corporations reap enormous profits by providing a myriad of goods and services devoted to making war, which must be rationalized and used if the game is to go on: advanced weaponry, drones and nukes; invasive information technology; space-based weapons; and special operations—with contracts stuffed with ongoing and proliferating developmental, tertiary and maintenance products for all of it."--

"The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and proliferating war industry to wield undue influence, exploiting financial and legal structures, while co-opting Congress, academia and the media. Spiked with insights into how corporate boardrooms view the troops, overseas bases, and warzones, it assiduously delineates how corporations reap enormous profits by providing a myriad of goods and services devoted to making war, which must be rationalized and used if the game is to go on: advanced weaponry, drones and nukes; invasive information technology; space-based weapons; and special operations--with contracts stuffed with ongoing and proliferating developmental, tertiary and maintenance products for all of it."--

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: A Correspondence from My Homeland -- PART ONE: HOME COUNTRY -- 1. Between Two Worlds -- 2. After the Words -- 3. Like Father, Not Like Son -- PART TWO: NEW TERRITORY -- 4. Forming a Family -- 5. The Sibs -- 6. Breaking the Chains -- 7. Breaking Away -- PART THREE: SOUL SEARCHING -- 8. Quiet Anger -- 9. Soul Searching -- 10. A Return -- 11. Transitions -- PART FOUR: FINDING HOME -- 12. I'm Professionally Deaf -- 13. On Being a Father, On Being a Husband -- 14. Claiming a Legacy -- 15. A Place in the World -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.