Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Public Dollars, Private Stadiums -- Introduction -- 1 Local Growth Coalitions and Publicly Funded Stadiums -- 2 Strategies for Building Private Stadiums with Public Dollars -- 3 Cincinnati -- 4 Cleveland -- 5 Minneapolis and Hartford -- 6 Denver, Phoenix,...