A review by choirqueer
Class Matters by New York Times

4.0

This book provides a good introduction to class issues, offering the reader an entry point that focuses on stories of the lives of people from different class experiences in the USA. The essay that compares three heart attack survivors' access to health care based on their class status and how that affected their health outcomes was particularly powerful. I would like liked to see more attention given to the ways in which gender and race intersect with class; it seemed like the book almost went out of its way to avoid mentioning these topics.

Despite being somewhat dated at this point (it was originally published in 2005), there is a lot of relevant information in this book. I would definitely recommend it, but keep in mind that this is really just an introductory-level resource and that it only begins to scratch the surface of class issues in the USA.