Fair play : : A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice / / ed. by Daniel Dorling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• HerausgeberIn: Dorling, Daniel,
• MitwirkendeR: O’Hara, Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

This accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media - including newspaper articles and key publications - 'Fair Play' provides evidence that Britain is becoming more politically, socially and economically divided whilst coming together in terms of educational outcomes and reduced segregation by ethnicity.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Sources of extracts -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Inequality and poverty -- Prime suspect: murder in Britain -- The dream that turned pear-shaped -- The soul searching within New Labour -- Unequal Britain -- Axing the child poverty measure is wrong -- Injustice and ideology -- Brutal budget to entrench inequality -- New Labour and inequality: Thatcherism continued? -- All in the mind? Why social inequalities persist -- Glass conflict: David Cameron’s claim to understand poverty -- Clearing the poor away -- Race and identity -- Ghettos in the sky -- Worlds apart: how inequality breeds fear and prejudice in Britain -- How much evidence do you need? Ethnicity, harm and crime -- UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex -- Race and the repercussions of recession -- Education and hierarchy -- What’s it to do with the price of fish? -- Little progress towards a fairer education system -- One of Labour’s great successes -- Do three points make a trend? -- Educational mobility, England and Germany -- Cash and the not so classless society -- Britain must close the great pay divide -- Raising equality in access to higher education -- Elitism and geneticism -- The Darwins and the Cecils are only empty vessels -- The Fabian essay: the myth of inherited inequality -- The return to elitism in education -- The super-rich are still soaring away -- Mobility and employment -- The trouble with moving upmarket -- Britain – split and divided by inequality -- London and the English desert: the grain of truth in a stereotype -- Are the times changing back? -- Unemployment and health -- Bricks and mortar -- Mortality amongst street sleeping youth in the UK -- Daylight robbery: there’s no shortage of housing -- The influence of selective migration patterns -- The geography of poverty, inequality and wealth in the UK and abroad -- All connected? Geographies of race, death, wealth, votes and births -- Well-being and misery -- Against the organization of misery? The Marmot Review of Health Inequalities -- Inequality kills -- The geography of social inequality and health -- The cartographer’s mad project -- The fading of the dream: widening inequalities in life expectancy in America -- The importance of circumstance -- Advocacy and action -- Mean machine: how structural inequality makes social inequality seem natural -- Policing the borders of crime: who decides research? -- Learning the hard way -- When the social divide deepens -- Ending the scandal of complacency -- Our grandchildren will wonder why we were addicted to social inequality -- Mind the gap: New Labour’s legacy on child poverty -- Remapping the world’s population: visualizing data using cartograms -- If I were king -- Bibliography -- Index