Understanding Social Inequality"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are - despite the claims of some influential commentators - still central to the sociological enterprise and, indeed to political life." - Roger Burrows, University of York "A clear and compelling analysis of the dynamics of social and spatial inequality in an era of globalisation. This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, human geography and the social sciences more generally." With the declining attention paid to social class in sociology, how can we analyze continuing and pervasive socio-economic inequality? What is the impact of recent developments in sociology on how we should understand disadvantage? Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, this book brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed ′fact′ that the world is becoming more unequal, this book brings together the ′identity of displacement′ in sociology and the ′spaces of flow′ of geography to show how place has become an increasingly important focus for understanding new trends in social inquality. |
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... incomes by occupational group, 1998 (£) 72 6.1 Welfare regime characteristics 103 6.2 Absolute poverty rates for OECD nations using the US poverty line, 1994 and 1995 113 6.3. Ratio of minimum wage to average wage in the United States ...
... income inequality are widest in the United States out of all the major industrial nations and the gap between it and the others has itself grown since the 1970s (Kerbo, 2003). Western European countries have also experienced greater income ...
... income for the millions of the 'working poor' in both Britain (Abrams, 2002 – see Box 1.1; Toynbee, 2003) and the United States (Ehrenreich, 2002).1. BOX. 1.1. AGENCY CLEANING IN LONDON Fran Abrams worked at three minimum wage jobs, as an ...
... income, etc. Research on health inequalities has shown that mortality rates follow a 'class gradient'; in other words that the percentages of the population dying and being ill are highest among social class V (unskilled occupations) ...
... income. Work relationships were 'instrumental' and community ones were 'privatized'. Work was undertaken in large, automated factories and was seen as a 'necessary evil' to buy goods for consumption – the 'cash nexus' is central. The ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 The Aftermath of Affluence | 57 |
Chapter 5 New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour | 76 |
Chapter 6 Poverty Social Exclusion and the Welfare State | 100 |
Chapter 7 New Work and New Workers | 135 |
Chapter 8 Class Identity | 165 |
Bibliography | 189 |
Notes | 211 |
Index | 215 |
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