Autor: Farley Reynolds Farley

"A fascinating and authoritative account of American social history since 1960 as viewed through the prism of government statistics….[Farley] uses publicly available data, straight forward met …

"The Census is a most valuable source of information about our lives; these volumes make the story it has to tell accessible to all who want to know." -Lee Rainwater, Center for Advanced St …

Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit’s manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing …

For more than 200 years, America has turned to the decennial census to answer questions about itself. More than a mere head count, the census is the authoritative source of information on where peopl …

Is the United States a nation divided by the "color line, " as W.E.B. Dubois declared? What is the impact of race on the lives of Americans today? In this powerful new assessment of the soc …

"The Census is a most valuable source of information about our lives; these volumes make the story it has to tell accessible to all who want to know." -Lee Rainwater, Center for Advanced St …