Inequality in Australia
Kevin White author Alastair Greig author Frank Lewins author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:17th Feb '03
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This text analyses the changing nature of inequality in Australia.
This text seeks to analyse and explain inequality, challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective. The authors provide a comprehensive historical account of inequality, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms of inequality experienced in recent decades.This text seeks to analyse and explain inequality, challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective. The authors provide a comprehensive historical account of inequality, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms experienced in recent decades. They argue that transformations in industrial, familial and political relations since the 1970s must be taken into account when trying to come to grips with the 'new' inequalities. As society has changed, new forms of inequality have emerged, conditioning the subject's very experience of identity, embodiment and politics. Inequality is understood, then, not as something that can be determined only with reference to traditional categories such as class but as that which works more insidiously. The authors demonstrate, for example, how bio and medical technologies produce inequalities. The book is at once a critical overview of contemporary inequality and a thorough-going textbook suitable for undergraduates.
'… highly stimulating and thought provoking … there is much to recommend in this book … I strongly recommend the book as a supplementary text or reader for courses on social inequality and social exclusion.' Journal of Social Policy
ISBN: 9780521818919
Dimensions: 244mm x 163mm x 23mm
Weight: 616g
320 pages