Inequality and the 1% / Danny Dorling
By: Dorling, Daniel [author]
Publisher: London : New York : Verso, 2014Description: 234 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 26854ISBN: 9781781685853Other title: Inequality and the one percentSubject(s): Equality -- Great Britain | Poverty -- Great Britain | Social classes -- Great BritainDDC classification: 305.50941 DOR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.
But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting education and work prospects, and even affecting mental health.
What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and asks what have the superrich ever done for us. He shows that inquality is the greatest threat we face and why we must urgently redress the balance.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Can We Afford the Superrich? (p. 1)
- 2 Childhood (p. 26)
- 3 Work (p. 55)
- 4 Wealth (p. 89)
- 5 Health (p. 130)
- Conclusion: Towards a Fairer Society (p. 159)
- Acknowledgements (p. 182)
- Notes (p. 185)
- Index (p. 225)
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