Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in Houston, 1900-1980
This dissertation explains how increased educational attainment became the most politically viable means of reducing economic inequality in the postwar United States. Using Houston as a case study, the dissertation argues that a heterogeneous group of people and organizations played a role in the c...
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Harvard University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11646 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274608 |