Inequalities in the UK : new discourses, evolutions and actions / edited by David Fee, Anémone Kober-Smith.
Contributor(s): Fée, David (Lecturer) [editor.]
| Kober, Anémone [editor.].Publisher: Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2018Description: x, 369 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781787144804; 9781787149427; 9781787144798.Subject(s): Income distribution -- Great Britain | Equality -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 339.20941 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 339.20941 INE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016520 |
Part I. Mapping inequalities in the UK today: the changing face of inequalities? -- 1. Economic inequalities in the UK since 2008 / Nicholas Sowels -- 2. Tackling inequality is an economic imperative / Stewart Lansley -- 3. Inequalities in England: regional differences and new perspectives on a geopolitical issue / Mark Bailoni -- 4. 'A classless society?' Making sense of inequalities in the contemporary UK with the Great British Class Survey / Niall Cunningham, Helene Snee and Fiona Devine -- 5. What the minimum income standard tells us about living standards in the UK / Abigail Davis and Matt Padley -- 6. Inequality in the UK in a comparative perspective / Jonathan Bradshaw and Oleksandr Movshuk -- Part II. The equality agenda then and now: political debates, public policies and outcomes -- 7. The Labour Party and the egalitarian project / Eric Shaw -- 8. Diluting substantive equality: why the UK government doesn't know if its welfare reforms promote equality / Simon Roberts, Bruce Stafford and Katherine Hill -- 9. Housing policy and the making of inequality / Alan Murie -- 10. Expanding opportunities at school level in England in the early 21st century: a government priority? / Anne Beauvallet. 11. Proprotionate universalism as a route to mitigating health inequalities? Exploring political, policy and practice uncertainties in times of austerity / Mhairi Mackenzie, Annette Hastings, Breannon Babbel, Sarah Simpson and Graham Watt -- 12. Gender inequalities in Britain: bridging the gap in pay and prospects / Louise Dalingwater -- 13. Disabled asylum seekers as experimental subjects in a broader systemic agenda of inequality / Rebecca Yeo -- Part III. The governance of inequality: local initiatives and responses in a multi-level polity -- 14. It's terrible having no job, people look down on you and you've never enough money: Lowestoft case study / Emma Bond -- 15. Combating unequal inclusion of immigrants into the host society: comparing policy responses in London and Paris / Markéta Seidlová and Paul Chapman -- 16. Reducing inequalities in Scotland: firm commitments, mixed results after ten years of SNP governments / Edwige Camp-Pietrain -- 17. Devolution, recession and the alleviation of inequality in Wales / Rhys Davies and Alison Parken -- 18. Social inequalities in Northern Ireland / Valérie Peyronel.
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