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Title

The new egalitarianism / edited by Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Giddens, Anthony.
• Diamond, Patrick.
• Policy Network. Working Group on "Community and Inequality."

Description

ix, 254 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This text tackles one of the most pressing issues currently facing centre-left governments - inequality. Bringing together original contributions from globally renowned thinkers, the text offers an account of the dynamic & multifaceted nature of contemporary inequality, & lays out how these inequalities can be countered.

Subjects

• Royaume-Uni
• Social justice
• Equality
• Sociale ongelijkheid
• UE/CE Etats membres
• Partis de gauche
• Partis du centre
• Changement social
• Justice sociale
• Pauvreté
• Inégalités sociales
• Social Justice

Note

• Based on three meetings of Policy Network's working group on "Community and Inequality" in 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Inequality of incomes and opportunities / Gøsta Esping-Andersen -- Does inequality matter? / Edward Miliband -- Inequality in the new knowledge economy / Robert D. Atkinson -- Opportunity and life chances : the dynamics of poverty, inequality, and exclusion / Robert Walker -- Where are the poor? : the changing patterns of inequality and the impact of attempts to reduce it / Anne Power -- The new egalitarianism : economic inequality in the UK / Patrick Diamond and Anthony Giddens -- Inequality and recognition : pan-European social conflicts and their political dynamic / Ulrich Beck -- New global classes : implications for politics / Saskia Sassen -- Britain's glue : the case for liberal nationalism / David Goodhart -- Why gender equality? / Magdalena Andersson -- Social corrosion, inequality, and health / Richard Wilkinson -- Inequality, choice, and public services / Julian Le Grand.

ISBN

• 0745634311
• 9780745634319
• 0745634303
• 9780745634302

LCCN

2023394058

OCLC

• ocm60841910
• 60841910
• SCSB-1366572

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library