Author : W. Atkinson
Release : 2012-10-09
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 388/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Class Inequality in Austerity Britain by : W. Atkinson
Download or read book Class Inequality in Austerity Britain written by W. Atkinson. This book was released on 2012-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and their damaging effects on class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal politics, reflections on the status of sociology as a source of critique and current debates over the relationship between the cultural and economic dimensions of social class, the contributors cover an impressively wide range of relevant topics, from education, family policy and community to crime and consumption, shedding new light on the experience of domination in the early 21st Century.