Tackling inequalities : : Where are we now and what can be done? / / ed. by Christina Pantazis, David Gordon.

The growing divide between the poor and the rich is the most significant social change to have occurred during the last few decades. The new Labour government inherited a country more unequal than at any other time since the Second World War. This book brings together a collection of contributions o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of acronyms
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Inequalities in income, wealth and standard of living in Britain
  • Inequalities in employment: problems of spatial divergence
  • Educational inequalities and Education Action Zones
  • How can we end inequalities in housing?
  • Tackling inequalities in crime and social harm
  • Poverty across the life-course and health
  • Inequalities in health service provision: how research findings are ignored
  • A mortality league table for Cabinet Ministers?
  • Ending world poverty in the 21st century
  • Index