Inequality in Australia / Alastair Greig, Frank Lewins, Kevin White.

By:

Greig, Alastair, 1960-

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0521818915
9780521818919
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inequality in Australia.DDC classification:

305/.0994 21

LOC classification:

HN850.Z9 S6444 2003eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Why a new look at inequality?; The importance of the social; The importance of history; 2 Inequality and the Sociology of the Body; 3 Sick Bodies and Inequality: Class, Mortality and Morbidity; 4 Gendered, Aged and Disabled Bodies; 5 Experiencing the Inequality of Social Resources; 6 Experiencing the Inequality of Cultural Difference; 7 Experiencing the Inequality of Life Choices; 8 Collective Identity, Politics and the Myth of Egalitarianism.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-291) and index.

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.