Economic Apartheid in America

Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel use accessible primer formatting — charts, timelines, and plain explanations — to walk general readers through how wealth concentration grew in the United States over the final decades of the twentieth century. The causes they trace (declining union power, shifting tax policy, corporate influence in politics) are laid out clearly, and the final chapter moves from diagnosis to a concrete action agenda. Sojourners called it a clear blueprint; Tikkun praised its groundwork for democratic discussion. The honest caveat is that the framing is unambiguously progressive, and contested policy proposals are presented as logical necessities rather than one position among several. Readers with conservative or libertarian economic perspectives will find it one-sided. The 2000 original is also dated; the 2005 revision helps but the landscape has shifted further. Read it knowing what it is — a focused advocacy primer, not a neutral survey.