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This book provides a thorough and engaging analysis of inequality in Britain, including its long-term development and transformation since the beginning of the 20th century.The author argues that inequality is not what it used to be no longer can policy-makers consider it just in terms of status, wealth and income. Having resurfaced strongly as an issue after the financial crisis of 20072008, a truly informed discussion of inequality must now be wide ranging and take account of a variety of interacting factors. They include both a radically different role for education in the labour market and the interests of future generations. Government policies, market failures and fundamental changes in British society and economy in earlier decades have all contributed to inequalitys contemporary scope, its intensity and who it affects.Alan Ware traces and illuminates the altered nature of inequality in Britain, its consequences and especially its political implications. It offers a timely, concise and illuminating examination that will be of interest to all those concerned about inequality and, more broadly, to scholars and students of sociology, social/public policy, contemporary British history, political sociology and political theory.
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Alan Ware's account emphasises how positional competition drives inequality, with adverse effects not only on social welfare but also on venerable institutions, especially education. This sparkling and original contribution highlights the political implications of the changing relationship between money, class and status in contemporary Britain.
Deborah Mabbett, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Inequality in Britain is an essential guide to understanding what there is to know about inequality in Britain. Alan Ware draws together the lessons of disparate fields into a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between multiple sources of inequality, demonstrating the fundamental relationships between class, gender and ethnicity. He seamlessly draws together historical perspectives and data driven economic accounts into a book that is both highly informative and a damn good read. An absolute must for the bookshelves of anyone who is concerned about who we are and what we might become.
Rosie Campbell, King's College London, UK
What this book promises is a sketch map of how different aspects of inequality fit together. It achieves that aim admirably. But it does so much more. It shows how the development of inequality is driven by positional competition, relative deprivation and the cumulative effects of social and policy developments over time. Its concluding message that creative political leadership is essential for an adequate set of policy responses is both sober and ambitious. A tour de force.
Albert Weale, University College London, UK
Inequality in Britain
This book provides a thorough and engaging analysis of inequality in Britain, including its long-term development and transformation since the beginning of the 20th century.
The author argues that inequality is not what it used to be no longer can policy-makers consider it just in terms of status, wealth and income. Having resurfaced strongly as an issue after the financial crisis of 20072008, a truly informed discussion of inequality must now be wide ranging and take account of a variety of interacting factors. They include both a radically different role for education in the labour market and the interests of future generations. Government policies, market failures and fundamental changes in British society and economy in earlier decades have all contributed to inequalitys contemporary scope, its intensity and who it affects.
Alan Ware traces and illuminates the altered nature of inequality in Britain, its consequences and especially its political implications. It offers a timely, concise and illuminating examination that will be of interest to all those concerned about inequality and, more broadly, to scholars and students of sociology, social/public policy, contemporary British history, political sociology and political theory.
Alan Ware is an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University, and a senior research associate of University College London, United Kingdom.
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Series editors: Patrick Diamond and Tim Bale
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Inequality in Britain
Alan Ware
Inequality in Britain
Alan Ware
First published 2020
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Names: Ware, Alan, author.
Title: Inequality in Britain / Alan Ware.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge studies in british politics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019028250 (print) | LCCN 2019028251 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367331603 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367331696 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429318269 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: InequalityGreat Britain. | Income distributionGreat Britain. | Great BritainEconomic conditions.
Classification: LCC HN400.S6 W37 2020 (print) | LCC HN400.S6 (ebook) | DDC 305.50941dc2 3
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028250
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028251
ISBN: 978-0-367-33160-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-33169-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-31826-9 (ebk)
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Contents
There has been inequality in most human societies. How much it is discussed, or how much it dominates ideas and communications, varies both between societies and over time. Especially since the Industrial Revolution, a vast amount has been written on the subject. In Britain the subject is never entirely absent from the public domain, but how much attention we pay to it changes over time. Since the financial crisis of 2008 and during the ensuing period of austerity and low economic growth, interest in inequality, together with concern and anger about it, has grown. It might be expected, therefore, that in the English language there would be a wealth of material about inequality to which a reader could turn for an understanding of how and why high levels of inequality persist, and even grow, in affluent societies. In a sense that expectation is most certainly met but with one important qualification.
Our knowledge of inequality, together with arguments about it, tends to be clustered around particular aspects of it, with different academic disciplines having their own versions of what is important. Partly that is because there are many diverse elements to inequality, but also because the various disciplines and sub-fields make different assumptions about evidence, modes of investigation and the direction of some causal relationships. Thus, within all the social sciences and various fields of historical studies there are many ways of focussing on inequality. The result is that we can see the equivalent of individual trees so clearly, but the overall shape of the wood in which they are located is more difficult to determine.
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