The second edition of Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism (2004) won the Best Book of the Year award from the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association. In this edition, Barbara H. Chasin updates and expands the previous material, adding and reflecting on the relevance of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis, access to firearms, and white supremacist movements. Written in a readable, accessible style, this book is a thoroughly documented account of the pertinence of connecting economic and political inequalities to dangers people face. The...