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Title

The killing fields of inequality / by Göran Therborn.

Author

Therborn, Göran, 1941-

Publication

Cambridge : Polity, 2013.

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Details

Description

212 pages p; 22 cm

Summary

"Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations of inequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class. But this book is about experiences of equalization too, highlighting moments and processes of equalization in different parts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, from the Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates the toughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can be avoided: this book shows how"--Back cover.

Subject

• Equality
• Premature death > Economic aspects
• Social stratification
• Equality > Health aspects
• Marginality, Social
• Income distribution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Human, nasty and short: life under inequality -- Behind the doors of exclusion -- Theoretical cross-draught -- Three kinds (in)equality and their production -- Inequality and the rise of modernity -- A historical six-pack: three inequalities in global and national history -- Current world patterns and dynamics of inequalities -- Three puzzles of contemporary inequalities -- Overcoming inequalities: yesterday and tomorrow -- The decisive battlefields of future (in)equality.

ISBN

• 9780745662589 (hbk.)
• 0745662587 (hbk.)
• 0745662595 (pbk.)
• 9780745662596 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 859557323
• SCSB-12722269

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library