UID:
almafu_9961045722302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 404 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781447349099
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1447349091
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9781447349082
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1447349083
Originaltitel:
Works. Selections
Inhalt:
Dorling brings together new material alongside a selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times and the China People's Daily. He explores whether we have now reached 'peak inequality' and concludes by predicting what the future holds for Britain.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of figures --
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List of tables --
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Acknowledgements --
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Section 1 Inequality --
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CHAPTER 1.1 Crisis, austerity and the future --
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Section 2 Politics --
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CHAPTER 2.1 Introduction --
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CHAPTER 2.2 Fairness and the changing fortunes of people in Britain --
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CHAPTER 2.3 Mapping the August 2011 riots --
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CHAPTER 2.4 The machine brings class and change --
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CHAPTER 2.5 Thinking about class --
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CHAPTER 2.6 Should Parliament move out of London? --
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CHAPTER 2.7 The Tories will reduce UK public spending to Estonian levels --
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CHAPTER 2.8 A better politics – a more enlightened economics --
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CHAPTER 2.9 Brexit: the decision of a divided country --
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CHAPTER 2.10 France shows what has gone wrong in the UK and US --
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CHAPTER 2.11 UK election cartography --
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CHAPTER 2.12 The election result in three graphs --
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Section 3 Housing --
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CHAPTER 3.1 Introduction --
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CHAPTER 3.2 Housing has become the defining economic issue of our times --
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CHAPTER 3.3 Modern realities increasing the discomfort of the comfortably off --
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CHAPTER 3.4 Growing wealth inequality in the UK is a ticking time bomb --
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CHAPTER 3.5 Only one lucky generation ever struck housing gold --
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CHAPTER 3.6 The London bubble --
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CHAPTER 3.7 Policy, politics, health, and housing in the UK --
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CHAPTER 3.8 London and the English desert --
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CHAPTER 3.9 Living in extraordinary times --
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CHAPTER 3.10 This government can’t be trusted on housing --
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CHAPTER 3.11 Turning the tide on inequality --
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CHAPTER 3.12 Homelessness and risk of homelessness greatly harm public health --
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Section 4 Demography --
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CHAPTER 4.1 Introduction --
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CHAPTER 4.2 Some good news – World Population Day --
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CHAPTER 4.3 The turning points of history --
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CHAPTER 4.4 The dimensions that shape London – mapped --
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CHAPTER 4.5 The hollowing out of London: poverty patterns are changing --
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CHAPTER 4.6 Income inequality in the UK: European comparisons --
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CHAPTER 4.7 Visualizing urban and regional worlds --
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CHAPTER 4.8 A human cartographic perspective --
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Section 5 Education --
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CHAPTER 5.1 Introduction --
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CHAPTER 5.2 English education policy is based on a nasty little theory --
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CHAPTER 5.3 Are today’s second-year students the unluckiest cohort ever? --
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CHAPTER 5.4 Is the British education system designed to polarise people? --
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CHAPTER 5.5 Tuition fees: a bonanza for the 1% --
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CHAPTER 5.6 England’s schools make us the extremists of Europe --
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CHAPTER 5.7 How well can we predict educational outcomes? --
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CHAPTER 5.8 Why steer so many to university at 18, before they are ready? --
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CHAPTER 5.9 Humans most atrocious under the weight of great inequalities --
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CHAPTER 5.10 Why student loans are a confidence trick for the 85% --
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CHAPTER 5.11 How children’s books reveal inequality --
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CHAPTER 5.12 Say ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to England’s embarrassing tuition fees --
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Section 6 Health --
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CHAPTER 6.1 Introduction --
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CHAPTER 6.2 Lower speeds save lives and revive communities --
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CHAPTER 6.3 Why are the old dying before their time? --
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CHAPTER 6.4 All the presidents’ children --
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CHAPTER 6.5 The mother of underlying causes --
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CHAPTER 6.6 Black Lives Matter --
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CHAPTER 6.7 The impact of the housing crisis on health --
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CHAPTER 6.8 Policymakers should not act like scientists --
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CHAPTER 6.9 Why has mortality in England and Wales been increasing? --
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CHAPTER 6.10 Have mortality improvements stalled in England? --
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CHAPTER 6.11 Changes in the number of delayed discharges of NHS patients --
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CHAPTER 6.12 Short cuts --
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Section 7 The future --
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CHAPTER 7.1 Introduction --
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CHAPTER 7.2 How might we house ourselves? --
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CHAPTER 7.3 How might we better school ourselves? --
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CHAPTER 7.4 Work: a view from one hundred years hence --
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CHAPTER 7.5 Eat the Rich: wise up and rise up --
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CHAPTER 7.6 Europe one hundred years hence --
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CHAPTER 7.7 Democracy one hundred years hences --
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CHAPTER 7.8 Policing one hundred years hence --
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CHAPTER 7.9 Terrorism 100 years hence --
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CHAPTER 7.10 A view from the future: the job-centre --
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CHAPTER 7.11 Why Corbyn’s moral clarity could propel him to Number 10 --
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Source credits --
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Index
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Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.46692/9781447349082
