Understanding social inequality. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Butler and Paul Watt.
• Other Names: Butler, Tim, 1949-; Watt, Paul
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Modernity, Postmodernity and Globalization; The end of certainty; The Enlightenment 'project', modernity and postmodernity; Globalization; Models of globalization; Globalization and migration; Chapter 3: The Collar Line and Urban Boundaries; Collars and classes; Work and stratification in post-war Britain; Class theory in British post-war sociology; The Marxist response to sociology; Urban boundaries; Chapter 4: The Aftermath of Affluence; Dual labour markets; Marxism and the labour process; Restructuring and the collapse of work; The new space economy; Emerging spatial divisions of labour and capitalist transformations; Whatever happened to the collar line?; Chapter 5: New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour; World cities; Los Angeles and the 'LA School'; Social polarization; Gentrification and the urban-seeking middle classes; The ghetto and the urban underclass; Methodology and urban social polarization; Chapter 6: Poverty, Social Exclusion and the Welfare State; Welfare state regimes; Poverty and social exclusion; Poverty in the United States; Poverty and social exclusion in Britain; Poverty and social exclusion in Europe; Towards a liberal welfare convergence?; Chapter 7: New Work and New Workers; New work; Fast food workers - flipping burgers in the globally branded restaurant; Call centres - taking calls in the interactive service factory; Paid domestic workers - caring and cleaning in global cities; Cash-in-hand jobs - informal work in marginal localities; Young people - working and playing in a restructured region; Chapter 8: Class Identity; Class interests; From class consciousness to class identity; The French connection - Bourdieu; Debating class identity; Identity and organization;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 305; Social stratification; Equality
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446239636; 1446239632
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