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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... wage to average wage in the United States and Europe, 1991–94 114 6.4 Indicators of social exclusion and percentage of working-age population excluded on each dimension in Britain, 1997 120. ••••••••. 6.5 6.6 6.7 7.1 Poverty rates for EU ...
... wage jobs, as an agency cleaner in London, as an agency worker on the bottling line at a pickle factor in Yorkshire ... wages in London. And yet somehow, by staying with relatives or living in hopelessly overcrowded housing, by always ...
... wage levels, occupational pension schemes and access to perks such as company cars, but also 'prospective rewards' such as promotion opportunities and incremental salary increases. Work situation refers to the occupation's location ...
... wages. This discontent concerned the nature of the job itself either because it was dirty and/or dangerous or because it was boring and repetitive. It was widely assumed that automation would enable the boring and repetitive parts of ...
... wage militancy. Trade union membership and activity is reinforced by a strong community consciousness in which there is a very low level of female economic activity (less than 15 per cent compared to the norm for the time of ...
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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