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Carter, who seek to decouple economics and race and argue that affirmative action programs and race-based initiatives are a cause of modern racism. Similarly, although many gender studies are quick to point out the economic dislocation of women in American society, most take it as a given that sexism trumps class in explaining it. Only socialist feminists and a handful of popular writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich bother to follow the money trail to see who, exactly, benefits from keeping women in economic thralldom.
The very title of SUNY economics professor Michael Zweig’s The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (2000) sums up one of the many problems associated with studying class in modern America. Zweig argues that the working class dwarfs the middle class, a revelation that would shock most Americans who presume they are middle class. He also cites a 1998 Roper Poll in which 53 percent of those polled self-identified as members of the working class. That figure raises eyebrows among those who study class, many of whom have not actually heard the term “working class” used in conversation outside of university and organized labor circles in decades!
Anti-tobacco activists claim that Camel cigarettes were intentionally targeted at young children, causing them to smoke at a younger age as well as encouraging brand loyalty at a young age; the company denies these allegations. This is only one of several examples of companies allegedly marketing to children a product intended for use by adults. The idea was that if children were introduced to the cigarettes as children, they would be more likely to remember them when choosing cigarettes when they turned eighteen or to begin smoking at an even earlier age.