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Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists

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Description for Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists Paperback. We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has collapsed in the last five years. In this fully rewritten and updated edition of Injustice, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. Num Pages: 484 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFFJ; JFFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 30. Weight in Grams: 608.

In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. Economic inequalities will persist and continue to grow for as long as we tolerate the injustices which underpin them.

This fully rewritten and updated edition revisits Dorling’s claim that Beveridge’s five social evils are being replaced by ... Read more

We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. With every year that passes it is more evident that Injustice is essential reading for anyone concerned with social justice and wants to do something about it.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
484
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447320753
SKU
V9781447320753
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers. With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. Find out ... Read more

Reviews for Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists
"For decades researchers have shown the damage inequality does to all society and Dorling's wonderful book extends this. With brilliance and passion Dorling analyses the mind-set of entitlement among those who hold ever tighter to money, power and life's best rewards, generation to generation." Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

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