• Inequality-- Politics-- Housing-- Demography-- Education-- Health-- Future.
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Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Here Dorling brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications as wide ranging as the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times and the China People's Daily. Covering key inequality issues including politics, housing, education and health, he explores whether we have now reached `peak inequality'. He concludes, crucially, by predicting what the future holds for Britain, as attempts are made to defuse the ticking time bomb while we simultaneously try to negotiate Brexit and react to the wider international situation of a world of people demanding to become more equal.
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For the potentates of medieval Europe (of both Church and State) dissent struck at the roots of their ordered settled world. To allow a single heretic or free spirit to escape just punishment would, they believed, doom the whole structure of society to decay and dissolution. So dissent was extirpated, first by reason, then by argument, and then with increasing savagery. Dissent was to be removed from the face of the Earth by fire and the sword, by strangulation and the ultimate refinements of torture. But why was the danger felt to be so great and so immediate, from a small minority of mostly poor and powerless individuals? Jeffrey Richards has looked at the persecuted lives of heretics, witches, Jews, prostitutes, lepers and homosexuals, and discovered a common motive for their sufferings. The chief link is sexual abberance. The Church sought to tighten and regulate even the most intimate details of human life, but without much success. Tacitly, unofficial sexual practices were tolerated. But progressively, deviance was seen as having a malign influence not just in an individual life, but in the world at large. At a time when the Second Coming was expected, men and women were expected to lead godly lives - anything less was an outrage. And as the power structures of society solidified, the deviants became convenient scapegoats. The rise of Islam, the spread of disease, especially the Black Death, were laid at their door. They became the scapegoats for a fearful world. Jeffrey Richards charts the shifting perceptions of sex, dissidence and damnation throughout the Middle Ages, and enables readers to form their own judgements.
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• Preface-- Introduction:
• 1. Social inequality and class radicalism-- Part I. Conceptions of Class Inequality:
• 2. Class awareness and class identity--
• 3. The conflict of class interests--
• 4. Political power and class inequality--
• 5. The national patterns-- Part II. Sources of Proximate Determination:
• 6. The power structure of the firm--
• 7. The influence of the trade unions--
• 8. The influence of the political party--
• 9. The power structure of the firm, the trade unions and the parties of the Left: discussion-- Part III. Elements of Historical Reconstruction:
• 10. The revolutionary tradition--
• 11. The agrarian roots of working-class radicalism: an assessment of the Mann/Giddens thesis--
• 12. War and the crisis of legitimacy-- Conclusion-- Appendices-- Notes-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This book, first published in 1983, examines in depth the nature and sources of class radicalism in France and Britain and takes issue with some of the major theories of class consciousness and class action. Drawing on data both from detailed case studies and from wider national surveys, it shows that the conflict of class interests within capitalist societies can lead to sharply diverging attitudes to class inequality. It argues that the explanation of such differences cannot be found in some 'general' law of the evolution of social conflict in capitalist society. It must be sought in the profound institutional differences that exist between the two societies. In particular the study argues for a reassessment of the importance of the experience of war and of the way in which the business and political elite handled the social crises generated by war, in accounting for the long-term structural divergence of capitalist societies.
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The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. City workers earn millions. Manual workers earn less than they did thirty years ago. The widening gap is tearing apart the fabric of our society. In this urgent polemic, "Guardian" journalist Polly Toynbee and the "Guardian's" economics editor David Walker present a worrying portrait of Britain today. Their gripping investigation takes them to a Cable and Wireless AGM, a chairman of a FTSE 100 company, a council estate, an inner city school and a Sure-Start programme. The editor of Tatler bemoans paying private school fees on a middle class salary and young city lawyers justify earning 100 times more than teachers because they work so hard.High earners have little idea that half of British people earn less that GBP22,300, and are amazed to learn that a third of the population live below the poverty line. Polly Toynbee and David Walker argue that our attitudes to pay and standards of living have been distorted. They shred the myth that executives require astronomical salaries, and put the case for higher taxation of the very rich. This was once the heart of Labour ideology, but politicians now seem almost embarrassed to raise the subject. Toynbee and Walker demolish the arguments against higher taxation, and show how government policy could revitalise British society. "Unjust Rewards" sets the agenda for the next general election.
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• Foreword by Robert Moore Preface by Tom Bottomore
• PART 1: Citizenship and Social Class Marshall
• 1. The Problem Stated, with the Assistance of Alfred Marshall
• 2. The Development of Citizenship to the End of the 19th Century
• 3. The Early Impact of Citizenship on Social Class
• 4. Social Rights in the 20th Century
• 5. Conclusions Notes
• PART 2: Citizenship and Social Class, Forty Years On Tom Bottomore
• 1. Citizens, Classes and Equality
• 2. Capitalism, Socialism and Citizenship
• 3. New Questions about Citizenship
• 4. Changing Classes, Changing Doctrines
• 5. A Kind of Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in post-war Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship - namely, the possession of civil, political and social rights - is as relevant today as it was when it first appeared. It is reissued here with a new and complementary monograph by Tom Bottomore in which the meaning of citizenship is re-examined, in very different historical circumstances. In asking how far the prospects for class equality have been realised, Bottomore continues the discussion in a context that encompasses the restoration of civil and political rights in Eastern Europe, problems of welfare capitalism, citizenship and the nation state and the broader issues of equality and democratic institutions.
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