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Book SynopsisFeatured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020 The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times In this vital new book, Britain′s first Professor of Social Mobility Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin, reveal the causes of the UK’s low social mobility, explain why it′s getting worse, and outline how we reverse this worrying trend, before it’s too late. It covers the history of social mobility in the UK, explores international comparisons, analyses the recent ‘dark age’ of declining absolute mobility, and investigates issues such as how family traits affect inter-generational mobility. The authors then outline what it is we should do about this pressing issue. Calling for a fundamental shift in debates about social mobility and arguing that only by establishing general principles of fairness in society can we agree the major policy reforms that can make Britain a more mobile and just society for all.Trade ReviewThe authors are two well-known British experts on the economics of social mobility. In this short, but comprehensive, survey, they illuminate the relatively poor UK record on mobility and what might be done to improve it. The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the complexities (and political difficulty) of solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. -- Martin WolfAn assured and detailed book bringing together the latest research, wide-ranging recommendations for practice and authoritative critiques of conventional wisdom. It’s a solid grounder for those new to the topic and has plenty of fresh perspective for readers who know the field well. -- Sam BaarsWritten by two of the leading authors on social mobility in the U.K., this book is an excellent and accessible entry point into a large and complex academic literature. It covers enormous ground, from technical issues about how to measure social mobility, to reasons for the historical trends in U.K. post war social mobility. It also puts the U.K. in an international context and suggests concrete policy solutions for the future. A must read for policymakers! Written in an engaging way, I can see it will become a primer on social mobility for years to come. -- Anna Vignoles, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of CambridgeTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Background 3. What Do We Know About Social Mobility? 4. What Should We Do About Social Mobility? 5. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing detailed economic analysis of the effects of sticker price, tuition discounts, merit and need-based financial aid, and institutional competition, Levine contends that the overall impact from these multiple factors is to limit access to higher education for lower-income students. He takes specific aim at the problem of opaque financial aid and how it serves to heighten inequities in higher education. And he offers an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of two major policies for improving access to college—the various versions of 'free college' and a significant increase (read: doubling) of Pell Grants." * Forbes *"A Problem of Fit [examines] the pricing system in American higher education, exploring the market factors that contribute to its problems....Levine [addresses] barriers to higher education beyond those directly related to pricing, such as excessive levels of student loans, the complexity of the college application process, and difficulties in understanding financial aid award letters." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Levine’s text is a quick and engaging read that we highly recommend. In each chapter, he does a fantastic job of identifying what matters for an audience’s understanding of these complex, interrelated issues and communicates them in a way that is approachable and allows readers to connect the pieces of this big puzzle. Levine’s text captures a high level of nuance that escapes most of the public and many policymakers. As such, this should be a required reading for higher education finance courses and new legislator orientations alike." * Teachers College Record *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader." * Monthly Labor Review (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader. I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with college pricing, as well as to people interested in learning more about the higher education market." * Monthly Labor Review *"If you want to understand the nuances of college affordability, pricing, and finance, this book is for you. Levine has taken an issue that impacts the majority of families going through the college search process and deconstructed its complexity. Whether you are a student, policy maker, or higher education practitioner, this is an important read." -- Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling"Levine combines accessible economic explanations with cogent policy recommendations to frame the challenges facing students and families navigating the complex world of college financing. His forceful critique focuses on analysis and solutions rather than anger and blame, forwarding ideas about targeted new funding and improved communication with the potential to help students enroll at the institutions that will be the best fit for them." -- Sandy Baum, Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Institution of Financial Aid Chapter 2: An Econ 101 View of College Pricing and Financial Aid Chapter 3: The Real Cost of College and Its Worth Chapter 4: Pricing Transparency Chapter 5: Addressing Affordability Chapter 6: Fixing the Pricing System in Higher Education Chapter 7: Other Barriers to College Access Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisA fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC''s ''Great British Class Survey''.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find themselves in the margins as well as in the centre.Their new conceptualization of class is based on the distribution of three kinds of capital - economic (inequalities in income and wealth), social (the different kinds of people we know) and cultural (the ways in which our leisure and cultural preferences are exclusive) - and provides incontrovertible evidence that class is as powerful and relevant today as it''s ever been.Trade ReviewThis endlessly fascinating study... is indispensable if you want to understand modern Britain -- Rod Liddle * Sunday Times *A fascinating read, going deep into the interplay between wealth, culture and society, and making the strong case that traditional class divisions don't really help us to understand these forces any more . . . anybody in the UK discussing class henceforth will need to get this down of the shelf -- Hugo Rifkind * Times *Convincing and fascinating . . . this book marshals impressive evidence to show how inequality is increasing. -- Robert Colvile * Telegraph *There's something for everybody here . . . it will start many conversations * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020 One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020 'Unputdownable ... Hong's razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger long after you put Minor Feelings down' - AnOther, Books You Should Read This Year 'A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by an award-winning poet and essayist' - Asia House 'Brilliant, penetrating and unforgettable, Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics ... To read this book is to become more human' - Claudia Rankine author of Citizen 'Hong says the book was 'a dare to herself', and she makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to be a classic' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth.Trade ReviewWe are so not ready for what Cathy Park Hong does in Minor Feelings. And thankfully, she does not care whether we are ready or not. ... Her vision and execution are so breathtaking. And so genius. And so absolutely scary. Read it. Reread it. It will read you. -- Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyStudded with moments [full of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness." * the New York Times *Formidable ... [this] book bled a dormant discomfort out of me with surgical precision. -- Jia Tolentino * New Yorker *Lands like a sucker punch to the gut ... We learned so much from Minor Feelings, not least what a dazzling writer Cathy Park Hong is. * Independent, Best Essay Collections for International Women's Day *Hong lays bare the shame and confusion she felt in her youth as the daughter of Korean immigrants, and the way those feelings morphed as she grew older .. underscores essential themes of identity and otherness * Time *Minor Feelings is anything but minor. In these provocative and passionate essays, Cathy Park Hong gives us an incendiary account of what it means to be and to feel Asian American today ... Minor Feelings is absolutely necessary. -- Nguyen Thanh Viet, author of the SympathizerHong writes masterfully ... [she] names and illuminates issues of race and gender that long went unnamed, creating a blistering new handbook to the state of race in America. -- Adrienne Westenfeld * Esquire *A fierce catalogue of that which has not been named and yet won't be ignored. An electric intervention, a provocation and a renewal. -- Alexander Chee, author of 'How To Write An Autobiographical Novel'Tremendous. The entire time I read, I was hissing yes and yes and YESSSSS ... It felt like having someone sit me down in a chair and say your feelings are real and this is how we got here and here is a way out all at once. It broke my heart with relief." -- Mira Jacob, author of Good TalkHong's essays are wry and unapologetically direct, challenging how we think, how we communicate and what we too quickly assume to understand. Minor Feelings is a sharp and urgent exploration of those hard-to-name sensations that govern racial consciousness. * Refinery 29 *In Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong has turned a sharp, yet tender gaze on her own life and contradictions, all while simultaneously probing and tearing apart with relentless exactitude accepted (and often lazy and ill-informed) notions of what it means to be Asian-American in the 21st Century. The book is also surprisingly funny and full of stories and characters, including Hong herself, who kept me turning the pages. It was one of my favorite reads this year. -- Attica Locke author of Heaven My Home and writer for Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)Thought-provoking -- Curtis Sittenfeld

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Book Synopsis''Pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal'' Hilary MantelLynsey Hanley grew up part of the ''respectable working class''. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This book is about what it means to cross class divides, what we leave behind in order to get on, and how class affects all of us today.''There is fury contained within the pages and between the lines of Respectable ... intelligent and important'' Colin Grant, Guardian''Honest, brave and moving'' Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level''Lynsey Hanley is such a crucial voice. When she writes about class, she is writing about lived experience'' Owen Jones, New Statesman''Hanley vividly describes the risky, lonely journey she undertook from one class to another ... She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition'' Craig Brown, Mail on SundayTrade ReviewAmbitious, impressive... There is fury contained within the pages and between the lines of Respectable... an intelligent and important book that deserves to be widely read -- Colin Grant * Guardian *Hanley vividly describes the "risky, lonely journey" she undertook from one class to another... She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *Why is class still so central to the experience of living in Britain? It is an urgent question, evaded through a kind of collective shame, but Lynsey Hanley approaches it with wit and passion. Respectable is pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal but solidly grounded in a lifetime's experience of analysing the world around her. It is one of those valuable books that enables the reader to re-think her past and re-experience her own life. -- Hilary MantelHonest, brave and moving, Respectable opens up the emotional experience of navigating across class boundaries in an unequal world. -- Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

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Book SynopsisThis book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Affluence to Reflexivity PART I: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES Reflexivity and its Discontents Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity PART II: SEARCHING FOR THE REFLEXIVE WORKER Educational Reproduction Today Topographical Trajectories Distinction and Denigration 'Class' as Discursive and Political Construct Conclusion: Rigid Relations through Shifting Substance Appendix: The Search Process

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Book SynopsisAmid pervasive and toxic language, and equally ugly ideas, suggesting that migrants are invaders and human mobility is an aberration, one might imagine that human beings are naturally sedentary: that the desire to move from one's birthplace is abnormal. As the contributors to this volume attest, however, migration and human mobility are part and parcel of the world we live in, and the continuous flow of people and exchange of cultures are as old as the societies we have built together. Together, the chapters in this volume emphasise the diversity of the origins, consequences and experiences of human mobility in the Middle East. From multidisciplinary perspectives and through case studies, the contributors offer the reader a deeper understanding of current as well as historical incidences of displacement and forced migration. In addition to offering insights on multiple root causes of displacement, the book also addresses the complex challenges of host-refugee relations, migrants' integration and marginalisation, humanitarian agencies, and the role and responsibility of states. Cross-cutting themes bind several chapters together: the challenges of categories; the dynamics of control and contestation between migrants and states at borders; and the persistence of identity issues influencing regional patterns of migration.Trade Review'This collection is both a timely and significant contribution to our understanding of what makes movement and mobility a defining feature of contemporary life in the Middle East.' -- Dawn Chatty, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford'Babar has skillfully assembled an impressive collection of case studies on voluntary and involuntary mobility in the Middle East. A valuable contribution to the debate on how states and non-state actors instrumentalise migration, displacement and statelessness.' -- Abdulhadi Khalaf, Professor of Sociology, Lund University'This volume is timely and essential as more borders harden, economies and societies struggle with refugees, and war continues to cause human suffering in the Middle East. An excellent read and a must-have resource for scholars in the field.' -- Jane Bristol-Rhys, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Zayed University Abu Dhabi, and author of 'Emirati Women'

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Book SynopsisSince the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity. But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting educational and work prospects, and even affecting mental health. What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and asks what have the super-rich ever done for us? He shows that it is the 1% that threatens us with the most harm and why we must urgently redress the balanceTrade ReviewAn incredibly thoughtful book. With wit, expertise and a necessary anger, Danny Dorling makes the case for a 'slow revolution' against the concentrated wealth of the top 1%, who threaten our national and global well-being. Read him. Enjoy him. Join him. -- Melissa Benn, author of Life LessonsDorling asks questions about inequality that fast become unswervable: can we afford the superrich? Can society prosper? Can we realize our potential? -- Zoe Williams, GuardianA clear and readable account of the damage wrought by extreme inequality. This is a powerful book. -- Kate E. Pickett, co-author of The Spirit LevelA convincing picture of the epic insulation of the 1% -- Mary O’Hara, author of Austerity BitesIn a remarkable feat of archival excavation, Bill Mullen and Christopher Vials have prepared a carefully compiled dossier to address fascism in the US in new and original ways. The result is a varied and vital collection - historically engaging and pressingly relevant - that tracks the arc of fascism and radical responses. The US Antifascism Reader brings the true stakes of this topic into focus. It's a book I urge scholars and activists to obtain at once! -- Alan Wald, University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisFlapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4's The Archers. A whole section of the book is devoted to 'The Fall of the House of Aldridge', with Brian's ethical misdemeanours and fall from grace, looking at how Brian could have hidden his scandals and changed the impressions surrounding him as a 'feckless farmer'. Another section sees the parenting skills, or complete lack of them, of the Ambridge clans put on trial, and used to predict the future leaders of Ambridge. Chapters in the book discuss the power of family and community networks, the oppression of the Grundys by the lords of the manor, and Emma Grundy's housing woes and the importance of housing in the success and security of those in the village. This book explores how far housing, intergenerational wealth, skills and access to employment shape life chances of characters and shows that, perhaps more than anywhere else, its not what you know but who you know.Trade ReviewThe authors combine a refreshing academic rigour with an obvious (though not uncritical) love for the programme. The intriguing result puts Archers stories and characters into their real-world context – with a lot more laughs along the way than one might expect. -- Keri Davies,Long-serving The Archers scriptwriterAnother intelligent and insightful exploration of The Archers from the Academic Archers team. This cornucopia of thought-provoking standpoints offers readers the chance to reconsider what lies beneath the social system that permeates this everyday story of country folk. -- Charlotte Martin, aka 'Susan Carter', The ArchersBeing an Archers listener is a way of life, and this fascinating book plonks Ambridge exactly where it should be; right at the heart of the real world. Well-researched and beautifully written, it's the academic backbone of a much-loved series. -- Lucy Freeman, Writer and BroadcasterTable of ContentsPreface: The Haves and Have Nots: Wealth and Value in Ambridge; Cara Courage and Nicola Headlam Section 1 – It’s who you know, and what you know about them Chapter 1. The Grundys and their Oppressors; Keith Flett Chapter 2. Two-in/one-out: network power, kin-keeping and ‘airtight’ distinction; Nicola Headlam Section 2 – The Fall of The House of Aldridge, the Rise of the Oppressed Grundys? Chapter 3. ‘If you have security, Ed, that is everything’: Deconstructing ‘security’ as a buffer against life’s challenges; Lalage Cambell Chapter 4. ‘Feeding the Horses’: Modern Slavery, the dark side of construction hidden in plain sight in Ambridge; Nicola Headlam Chapter 5. Borsetshire Businessman or Feckless Farmer?; Christine Narramore Chapter 6. What to do when you’re no longer Borsetshire’s Businessperson of the Year or How to handle a scandal; Olivia Vandyk Section 3 - Family function and dysfunction Chapter 7. Contemporary social problems in a rural setting: using The Archers in Social Work Education; Helen Burrows Chapter 8. Academic Archers Assembly: Putting the parents on trial; Cara Courage Chapter 9. Accent and Identity in Ambridge: The link between spoken language and identity; Rob Drummond Chapter 10. ‘We Should have called him Damien’: A discussion of the impact of Henry Archer’s early years on potential crimes of the future; Nicola Maxfield Chapter 11. Fear, fecklessness and flapjacks: Imagining Ambridge’s offenders; Charlotte Bilby Section 4 – Housing and the Ambridge Fairy Chapter 12. Rich Relatives or Ambridge Fairy?: Patronage and expectation in Ambridge housing pathways; Claire Astbury Chapter 13. Staying in the Spare Room: Social Connectedness and Household Co-residence in The Archers; Paula Fomby Chapter 14. Can’t Afford The Laurels?: Care Provision in Ambridge in 2041; Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen Section 5 - It takes a village… Chapter 15. Parents, siblings, and the pursuit of power: Predicting the future leaders of Ambridge; Timothy Vercellotti Chapter 16. ‘From the moment those two joined the committee it’s been grunge bands, sumo wrestlers and souffle competitions’: What Ambridge’s civil society says about UK politics in 2019; Amy Saunders Chapter 17. A divided village: A narrative study using a theoretical lens of speculative ontology; Maggie Bartlett

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Book SynopsisWe are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has collapsed in the last five years. In this fully rewritten and updated edition of Injustice, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society.Trade Review"The book is accessible: clearly written and eloquently argued, with up-to-date data from the UK and US used to back up claims...a call to action, with practical steps towards eradicating inequality." Research Matters"Dorling's text is an invaluable reference that anybody and everybody concerned with inequality, social (in)justice, and the underside to the world in which we live ought have on their bookshelf." The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"This updated edition of Dorling's book will remind us - if we needed reminding - that injustice has not gone away, and that in many ways it is getting worse; that there are things that we can do about it; and that we need to do those things." Citizen's Income Trust"A rallying point for a different vision of society, one in which elitism is replaced by equality, exclusion and prejudice by acceptance, greed by selflessness, and despair by confidence. It is only in such an environment that individual fulfilment, regardless of position in the social order, and so desperately craved but so rarely realised in capitalist society, is available to all. What, then, are we waiting for?" The Oxford Left Review"Rich insights into how prejudice, presumption and a paucity of regard for our fellow human beings reinforces poverty as well as privilege." David Cay Johnston, journalist and author, Pulitzer Prize winner"Superb and invaluable ammunition in the fight against inequality and injustice" Owen Jones, author and Guardian columnist"Think twice before reading this book – you may well become an activist against social injustice, inequality and the exploitation of labour. Danny Dorling gives us words that are weapons." Ken Loach, director"Dorling’s analysis is quietly, devastatingly persuasive. Once you’ve read him you have to reassess how you live. That’s an amazing gift." Peter Florence, Director of the Hay Festival"In this new edition of his seminal Injustice, Dorling’s unique combination of moral passion and analytical rigour made my heart sing." David Marquand, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford University"Excellent compendium....[from] one of the great researchers on the condition of our time." Tribune"Powerful sentences and carefully-curated evidence frame critically-important thoughts on how we got here and how things could be different." Jamie Goodwin-White, University of California"Dorling has given us a guide through the dark, twisted and changing forest of injustice. A must-read for anyone fighting for justice." Dr Faiza Shaheen, Head of Inequality, Save the ChildrenTable of ContentsLetter from America: commentary by Sam Pizzigati; Foreword by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett; 1. Introduction; The beliefs that uphold injustice; The five faces of social inequality; A pocket full of posies; 2. Inequality: the antecedent and outcome and of injustice; Inevitability of change: what we do now we could all have enough?; Injustice rising out of the ashes of social evils; So where do we go from here; 3. 'Elitism is efficient': new educational divisions; The ‘new delinquents’: those most harmed by elitism, a seventh of all children; IQism: the underlying rationale for the growth of elitism; Apartheid schooling: from garaging to hot-housing; Putting on a pedestal: superhuman myths; The 1950s: from ignorance to arrogance; 4. 'Exclusion is necessary': excluding people from society; Indebted: those most harmed by exclusion, a sixth of all people; Geneticism: the theories that exacerbate social exclusion; Segregation: of community from community; Escapism: of the rich behind walls; The 1960s: the turning point from inclusion to exclusion; 5. 'Prejudice is natural': a wider racism; Indenture: labour for miserable reward, a fifth of all adults; Darwinism: thinking that different incentives are needed; Polarisation: of the economic performance of regions; Inheritance: the mechanism of prejudice; The 1970s: the new racism; 6. 'Greed is good': consumption and waste; Not part of the programme: just getting by, a quarter of all households; Economics: the discipline with so much to answer for; Gulfs: between our lives and our worlds; Celebrity: celebrated as a model of success; The 1980s: changing the rules of trade; 7. ‘Despair is inevitable’: health and wellbeing; Anxiety: made ill through the way we live, a third of all families; Competition: proposing insecurity as beneficial; Culture: the international gaps in societal wellbeing; Bird-brained thinking: putting profit above caring; The 1990s: birth of mass medicating; 8. Conspiracy, consensus, conclusion. No great conspiracy; Using the vote; Coming to the end; Injustice deepens; What to do;

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Book SynopsisFeatured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020 The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times In this vital new book, Britain′s first Professor of Social Mobility Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin, reveal the causes of the UK’s low social mobility, explain why it′s getting worse, and outline how we reverse this worrying trend, before it’s too late. It covers the history of social mobility in the UK, explores international comparisons, analyses the recent ‘dark age’ of declining absolute mobility, and investigates issues such as how family traits affect inter-generational mobility. The authors then outline what it is we should do about this pressing issue. Calling for a fundamental shift in debates about social mobility and arguing that only by establishing general principles of fairness in society can we agree the major policy reforms that can make Britain a more mobile and just society for all.Trade ReviewThe authors are two well-known British experts on the economics of social mobility. In this short, but comprehensive, survey, they illuminate the relatively poor UK record on mobility and what might be done to improve it. The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the complexities (and political difficulty) of solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. -- Martin WolfAn assured and detailed book bringing together the latest research, wide-ranging recommendations for practice and authoritative critiques of conventional wisdom. It’s a solid grounder for those new to the topic and has plenty of fresh perspective for readers who know the field well. -- Sam BaarsWritten by two of the leading authors on social mobility in the U.K., this book is an excellent and accessible entry point into a large and complex academic literature. It covers enormous ground, from technical issues about how to measure social mobility, to reasons for the historical trends in U.K. post war social mobility. It also puts the U.K. in an international context and suggests concrete policy solutions for the future. A must read for policymakers! Written in an engaging way, I can see it will become a primer on social mobility for years to come. -- Anna Vignoles, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of CambridgeTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Background 3. What Do We Know About Social Mobility? 4. What Should We Do About Social Mobility? 5. Conclusion

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Book Synopsis'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, SpectatorPoliticians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century. Drawing on hundreds of personal stories, Snakes and Ladders tells the hidden history of how people have really experienced that social mobility in both directions. It shows how a powerful elite on the top rungs have clung to their perch, as well as introducing us to the unsung heroes who created more room at the top. As we face political crisis after crisis, Snakes and Ladders argues that only by creating greater opportunities for everyone to thrive can we ensure the survival of our society.'A fascinating, important book' Mail on Sunday'A trove of stories of human hope and disappointment' New Statesman'Fascinating... A rich and well-observed historical account' Financial TimesTrade ReviewThe great strength of Selina Todd's Snakes and Ladders . . . is the richness of her presentation of it as a lived experience, whether upwards or downwards . . . intensely readable . . . a stimulating and necessary redress -- David Kynaston * Spectator *In this fascinating, important book, Professor Selina Todd shows us that 'levelling up' has always been a far more chancy, even unrewarding, business than we like to think -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *Structured around the personal stories of people who have experienced upward social mobility over the past 140 years or so . . . The social history that Todd deals with here is fascinating . . . The pandemic, as she argues, has reminded us that the jobs we reward are often not those that matter most. So instead of (or as well as) agonising about who gets to join the elite, we need to redefine the elite itself -- David Aaronovich * The Times *Snakes and Ladders arrives at a moment of particular relevance . . . this pandemic is an opportunity to look at what is "essential" in work and to reward it appropriately. Society is only as mobile as its structures allow. And it would be no bad thing if affording status to all strata of society became more important than "getting ahead" -- Andrew Anthony * Observer *Fascinating... [Snakes & Ladders is a] rich and well-observed historical account -- David Willetts * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisBrutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.Winner of the Orwell Prize.Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll.Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain . . .So he invites you to come on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. This book takes you inside the experience of poverty to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome.Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it is actually lived, McGarvey sets out what everybody – including himself – could do to change things.'Another cry of anger from a working class that feels the pain of a rotten, failing system. Its value lies in the strength it will add to the movement for change.' - Ken Loach, director of KesTrade ReviewPart memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-de-force. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left and right. It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book. -- J.K. RowlingNothing less than an intellectual and spiritual rehab manual for the progressive left. -- Irvine WelshAnother cry of anger from a working class that feels the pain of a rotten, failing system. Its value lies in the strength it will add to the movement for change. -- Ken LoachPoverty Safari is an important and powerful book. -- Nicola SturgeonPoverty Safari documents in vivid, piercing and frequently funny prose, the reality of growing up in Pollok and the consequences of a chaotic family life -- Stephen McGinty * Sunday Times *By his own account, Darren McGarvey’s first twenty-five years were a real-life version of Trainspotting . . . Poverty Safari [is] a painfully honest autobiographical study of deprivation and how society should deal with it . . . But what has made McGarvey such a particular figure of attention is his political message . . . [McGarvey] seems to offer an antidote to populist anger that transcends left and right . . . his urgently written, articulate and emotional book is a bracing contribution to the debate about how to fix our broken politics. * Financial Times *Poverty Safari is one of the best accounts of working-class life I have read. McGarvey is a rarity: a working-class writer who has fought to make the middle-class world hear what he has to say. -- Nick Cohen * Guardian *If The Road to Wigan Pier had been written by a Wigan miner and not an Etonian rebel, this is what might have been achieved. McGarvey’s book takes you to the heart of what is wrong with the society free market capitalism has created. -- Paul MasonThe man seems to be on his way to becoming one of the most compelling and original voices in Scotland’s, and maybe Britain’s, public debate. If Scotland’s underclass could speak in a single, articulate, authentic voice to communicate to the rest of us what it’s like to be poor, isolated, brutalised, lost, it would sound very much like this. * Scottish Daily Mail *Raw, powerful and challenging. -- Kezia DugdaleA blistering analysis of the issues facing the voiceless and the social mechanisms that hobble progress, all wrapped up in an unput-downable memoir. -- Denise MinaDescribes in unflinching detail the realities of growing up poor in Britain and sets out to challenge the various ways in which poverty is represented in the media and on both sides of the political divide * Guardian *A raw account of his own deprivation and addiction and a powerful political argument. * Guardian *The standout, authentic voice of a generation . . . the world is looking for eloquent voices like McGarvey's to explain things * Herald (Scotland) *Utterly compelling. -- Ian Rankin * New Statesman *

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Book SynopsisWe live in a world with too many graduates fighting for too few graduate jobs; where Deliveroo drivers have PhDs. What’s the point in a university education in a world without enough jobs? Roth writes a sharp critique of the utility of a degree and the functioning of higher education, drawing on his experience as a higher education administrator.Trade Review'Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.' -- Steve Fraser, author of 'Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion''A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and what the reality actually is. Cuts through the cloudiness of our long-held illusions.' -- Alfred Lubrano, author of 'Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Higher Education and Class 2. The Overproduction of Intelligence 3. Class in Transition: Historical Background 4. Underemployment Through the Decades 5. The Educated Underclass 6. Into the Future Index

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Book SynopsisDeepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between homes and neighbourhoods over the lifespan. This book presents a life course framework for understanding how the changing dynamics of people's lives influence their residential experiences.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Housing: a life course perspective 3. Households and families 4. Learning and training 5. Employment and money 6. Health, well-being and care 7. Changing places 8. Understanding housing and life course dynamics

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Book SynopsisThe book outlines the approaches of classical elite theory and democratic elitism for the study of national power structures. The book displays different research methods for elite study as well as the power conceptions included within these methods. An elite structure typology is derived from the elite theory and applied to chart the changes in the elite structure of one country, Finland. The data of this work is unique in international comparison: postal surveys were conducted among the elites and the citizenry in 1991, 2001, and 2011.The study explores empirically the changes occurring in the elite structure from the early 1990s to the present daya period that has been characterized by important societal upheavals, such as the great recession of the early 1990s, Finland's accession to the European Union in 1995, and the international financial crisis and the Eurozone debt crisis in the 2000s. The main focus is on how the elite structure has changed in terms of vertical social mobiliTrade ReviewSpanning 20 years, this is an exceptionally thorough study of how core elites and policies have evolved in Finland. A unique and an important contribution to the study of elites and politics. -- John Higley, University of Texas at AustinProfessor Ruostetsaari has been working on Finnish elites for decades. In this book, he gives a very comprehensive picture of the latter, including symbolic dimensions. I cannot imagine it being done better. -- Jean-Pascal DalozThe study and research of elites is important. Lexington Books has recently published a volume by Professor Ilkka Ruostetsaari in the field. . . .One can only hope that there will be a renewed interest in the study of political elites after the publication of the valuable book on Finnish elites 1991 – 2011. * Varldsinbordeskriget *Table of ContentsPREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THEORETICAL PREMISES 3. APPROACH OF THE STUDY 4. RECRUITMENT INTO ELITES 5. COHERENCE OF THE ELITE STRUCTURE 6. DISCUSSION

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Book SynopsisDragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken HeartlandsPip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in the 1980s saw him at the back of the dole queue like the rest. This is Pip’s story of being ‘dragged up proppa’, living by his wits, working and travelling the world before finally settling a few miles from where he grew up.A lot has been written about the red wall in recent years but Pip Fallow has lived it. This is his account of some of the most important issues affecting Britain today; from levelling-up and the north-south divide, to social mobility and class, and the devastating social upheaval caused by decades of deindustrialization and government neglect. Showing how broken promises of the past impact his village and the politics of today.This is the memoir of a man who left school illiterate, but has now written a book. The story of a lost generation who were prepared for a life that had disappeared by the time they were ready for it, of communities with once strong social ties that have now disintegrated, and a way of living that simply no longer exists in Britain today.'Fallow's memoir is not just a classic piece of working-class writing, but a truly gripping narrative' - Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A HistoryTrade ReviewA very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and an England that no longer exists but remains just as important as ever -- Sebastian Payne, author of Broken HeartlandsPip Fallow's memoir is not just a classic piece of working-class writing, but a truly gripping narrative -- Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History

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Book SynopsisWhat are the challenges for the current generation of graduate millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is known about the experiences of those going through it. This book traces the transition to the graduate labour market of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young people who were tracked through seven years of their undergraduate and post-graduation lives. Using personal stories and voices, the book provides fascinating insights into the group’s experience of graduate employment and how their life-course transitions are shaped by their social backgrounds and education. Critically evaluating current government and university policies, it shows the attitudes and values of this generation towards their hopes and aspirations on employment, political attitudes and cultural practices.Trade Review"An insightful read that will captivate the interest of anyone concerned with how inequalities continue to affect graduates’ transitions from university to the labour market" Educational ReviewTable of Contents1. Graduate Success and Graduate Lives 2. Moving on Up: Researching the Lives and Careers of Young Graduates 3. London Calling: Being Mobile and Mobilizing Capitals 4. ‘There’s No Place Like Home’: Graduate Mobilities and Spatial Belonging 5. Jobs for the Boys? Gender, Capital and Male-Dominated Fields 6. Intersections of Class and Gender in the Making of ‘Top Boys’ in the Finance Sector 7. Following Dreams and Temporary Escapes: The Impacts of Cruel Optimism 8. Lucky Breaks? Unplanned Graduate Pathways and Fateful Outcomes 9. Conclusion: The Making of Graduate Lives

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Book SynopsisDemocratic societies thrive when citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth. Not only can such practices result in more effective choice-making, but they can also lead to widespread support for progressive beliefs, such as social justice. With Western societies in the midst of environmental, social and political crises, it seems more pertinent than ever that citizens become ‘ideas-informed’. Presenting concepts from academia, industry, and practice, The Ideas-Informed Society closes the gap between the ideal of the ideas-informed society and the current reality. By exploring what it means to be ideas-informed and the benefits for both individuals and society, the chapters conceive what an ideal ideas-informed society would look like, what are the key ingredients of an ideas-informed society, and how to make it happen.Table of ContentsForeword; Sir Anthony Seldon PART 1: The Concept of an Ideas-Informed Society Chapter 1. Potent Ideas, Engaged Citizens, Healthy Societies; Chris Brown and Graham Handscomb Chapter 2. The Value of Uncertainty and the Tyranny of the Closed Mind; Sir Les Ebdon OBE Chapter 3. A Little Conceptual Housekeeping: ideas and their contexts; Lesley Saunders Chapter 4. Battle of Ideas: Shaping the future through debate; Alastair Donald PART 2: Truth-telling, Democracy and Community Chapter 5. Battle of Ideas: Weaponising the Free Speech Fallacy; Sam Fowles Chapter 6. Reversing Polarisation: How Challenging Ideas Can Help People Find Common Purpose; Sir Paul Collier Chapter 7. When Ideas Fail; Iain King CBE Chapter 8. Bearing the Truth and Building Truth-telling Communities; Helen Cameron Chapter 9. Informed Society and Representative Democracy: the role of parliaments; Stéphane Goldstein and Anne-Lise Harding Chapter 10. Questions worth asking and conversations that matter: generating ideas in cohesive communities; Tim Slack and Fiona Thomas Chapter 11. An entrepreneur’s journey: delivering ideas to change a VUCA world; Paul Lindley OBE Chapter 12. Education for Democracy: Schools as Communities of Inquiry; Vivienne Baumfield PART 3: Creativity, Arts and the Environment Chapter 13. In Praise of Inutility: Learning from Dickens; Judith Mossman Chapter 14. The power of visual ideas – Searching for a sense of place and belonging ; Rafael Klein Chapter 15. Curiosity and Stories: Working with art and archaeology to encourage the growth of cultural capital in local communities; John Castling and Jilly Johnston Chapter 16. Getting the (Positive) Word Out: The IdeaSpies Platform ; Lynn Wood and Sabra Brock Chapter 17. How to succeed in a volatile world? Utilising the 7 Pillars of Positive Resilience to make the ideas-informed society a reality; Belinda Board Chapter 18. As we sit in the in-between; Benjamin Freud and Charlotte Hankin PART 4: Education and empowering young people Chapter 19. Ideas-informed? – Ideas are not enough!; Valerie Hannon and Anthony Mackay AM Chapter 20. Unleashing ideas through Youth Led Social Innovation; Katherine Crisp Chapter 21. Developing Ideas-Informed Young Citizens; John Baumber Chapter 22. The Future Skills Society Needs and Its Critical Implications; Jude Hillary Chapter 23. Education policy for a new age of enlightenment; Raphael Wilkins Chapter 24. Ideas in Action: Critically Reflective Practice; Neil Thompson Chapter 25. Turning Schools Inside Out – Community Curriculum Making; David Leat, Alison Whelan, Ulrike Thomas, Carolynn Kerr, and Ruth Webb Chapter 26. The Case for Place: How we can improve our ideas about ‘place’ in education policymaking; Will Millard

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Book SynopsisInternationale Entwicklungen und Impulse fordern dazu auf, Bildungssysteme gerecht und inklusiv auszugestalten. Das vorliegende Buch greift dies auf und fokussiert das häufig unscharf diskutierte Verhältnis zwischen inklusiver Bildung und Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Durch die Zusammenstellung von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen und theoretischen Beiträgen aus mehreren europäischen Ländern zu dem Thema schaffen die Autor*innen einen übergreifenden Diskussionsrahmen.Table of ContentsMel Ainscow, Gottfried Biewer, Vera Moser: Preface – International Perspectives on Inclusion and Educational Justice Simone Seitz, Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco: Introduction – In the Light of Educational Justice: International Perspectives on Inclusion Part I: Conceptualisations Underpinning Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mai-Anh Boger: Political Ontologies of Difference and Their Trilemmatic Structure Anja Tervooren: The Social Category of ‘Disability’ as a Desideratum of Intersectional Childhood Studies Alessandra Imperio, Simone Seitz: Positioning of Children in Research on Assessment Practices in Primary School Michaela Kaiser, Simone Seitz: Giftedness and Achievement within Discourses Part II: Educational Justice within Different Education Systems – Some Empirical Evidence Simone Seitz, Francesca Berti, Catalina Hamacher: Throughout the Day on the Way to More Educational Justice? Children’s Voices on All Day-primary Schooling Petra Auer: On the Inclusiveness of the Education System in a Multination State from the Perspective of Primary School Children and Teachers’ Values Rosa Bellacicco, Silver Cappello: Evidence on Analysis and Reflections of Available Statistical Data in Italy Joanne Banks, Silver Cappello, Heidrun Demo, Rune Hausstätter, Simone Seitz: Funding Models of Inclusion in an International Perspective Part III: Doing Inclusion – Doing Difference Valentina Migliarini: Inclusive Education from the DisCrit Perspective Anna Frizzarin: Adolescents’ Attitudes Towards and Representation of Otherness Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco, Dario Ianes: Individual Education Plans as Instruments and Practices for Inclusion: Problems and Dilemmas Heidrun Demo: Conclusion – The Challenge of Integrating Antinomies Around Inclusive Education About the Authors Index of Terms

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Book SynopsisGrowing up in Diverse Societies offers an assessment of the lives and attitudes of young ethnic minorities. Using recent data on c. 19,000 adolescents in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the editors have compared minorities and the majority revealing patterns of integration across immigrant origins and destination countries.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While, as the authors argue, to compare is human, a lot goes into which comparisons we make. Whether individuals engage in upward or downward comparison makes a huge difference in how they construct inequality in their minds and their political responses to this inequality. Condon and Wichowsky argue that which comparisons individuals choose to engage in, and which ones they are encouraged to make by the media and the political machinery determines how they react. Their ability to connect the dots between economic trends, social psychology, and politics of identity construction create an engaging book with tremendous salience for the present political moment." * Population and Development Review *"[The Economic Other] explores the central role of social comparison in the politics of inequality, focusing on ways that race and gender determine the nature and impact of cross-class comparisons. . . . [The book] investigates why Americans have not demanded more economic redistribution despite the substantial increases in income inequality. . . . [and] evaluates whether these reinforcing patterns regarding social comparison can be interrupted." * Journal of Economic Literature *“This book offers a wide range of insights and valuable causal inferences, serves as a methodological model that will likely be referenced in the future, and is sufficiently theoretically overabundant that scholars and students will likely be reading and building on it for many years to come.” * Perspectives on Politics *"Why are ordinary citizens so indifferent to socioeconomic inequality? Condon and Wichowsky offer a fresh, brilliant explanation to this central question of our time: the psychology of social comparison. Looking up at the privileged fosters awareness of inequality and support for ameliorating measures, but it is also uncomfortable and, therefore, rare. For emotional self-preservation, people would rather look down at the less fortunate, which undercuts mobilization around inequality. Engagingly written, theoretically sophisticated, and full of fascinating new data, this volume is a stand-out among the many books now examining inequality." -- Andrea Campbell, MIT"It is no longer deniable that social class matters in United States politics. Condon and Wichowsky lay open how it works for the thoughts and behaviors of members of the public. Their careful and lucid analyses show us that in this context of economic inequality, people are often comparing themselves to others whom they perceive to be faring better or worse and that these comparisons matter for our contemporary politics. This is a sophisticated take that maintains a focus on gender and race and treats economic distinctions as the social and political phenomena that they are." -- Katherine J. Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison"Rooted in social-psychological theory and a wealth of data from survey experiments, The Economic Other shines a bright light on a puzzling feature of our times: why soaring economic inequality has not produced a correspondingly strong demand for redistributive action. It shows that cross-class social comparisons importantly shape opinions about redistributive programs. Looking upward at high-income people encourages support for redistribution. But looking upward is uncomfortable and is discouraged by residential segregation, economic anxiety, and misleading media. Most Americans either avoid comparisons or look downward, reassuring themselves but blunting egalitarian impulses. Still, the authors offer some possible cures for this self-reinforcing dynamic of inequality." -- Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University"This is an important book, addressing an important set of questions, using innovative techniques to get answers. Condon and Wichowsky provide social scientists with a framework to understand the disconnect between rising inequality and support for redistribution. They provide progressive activists with a foundation to build more convincing messages. And on top of that, it is written in an engaging and accessible style." -- Nathan J. Kelly, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"In the last day, how many times have you compared yourself to someone else? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone: people compare themselves to others all the time, sometimes almost unconsciously. What’s remarkable is that these social comparisons are often the hidden drivers of how Americans form political attitudes about some of the paramount political issues of our time—issues like inequality, redistribution, and social policy. In this engaging and carefully-researched book, Condon and Wichowsky shine an overdue light on comparisons across social classes—that is, how Americans think about people richer and poorer than themselves—and the surprisingly powerful ways that these views structure our attitudes about inequality and economic policy. If you want to understand why Americans react to inequality in the (sometimes surprising) ways that they do, you need to read this book." -- Nicholas Carnes, Duke University“This book is like no other. It uses cutting-edge social science methods to explain how citizens think about themselves, others, and public policy. In so doing, it provides invaluable insight into the pressing contemporary issues of inequality and redistribution. Condon and Wichowsky will change the way scholars study public opinion formation and how we all think and talk about inequality.” -- James N. Druckman, Northwestern University"Some research in political psychology can seem like angels dancing on the head of a pin from the perspective of scholars focused on large political movements and big policy dilemmas—but not this book. The Economic Other uses elegant experimental and other techniques to explore two findings: how Americans compare themselves to others can increase their desire for greater social and economic equality, but how much they compare themselves to others can dampen that desire. Those are collective phenomena, not merely individual perversity. The combination is intellectually fascinating, politically infuriating, and morally disturbing—Condon and Wichowsky focus our attention on a dynamic that explains a lot of what is most troubling about American politics today." -- Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University"Scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics will value the book’s detailed examination of heterogeneity across races and genders." * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *"A timely and necessary piece of scholarship, this book contributes to a rich literature about inequality and the hesitancy to redistribute, opening up many possibilities for future research... This book should be required reading for not only academics, but anyone who wishes to better understand inequality in the United States." * Political Science Quarterly *"Condon and Wichowsky add a crucial social-psychological dimension to existing understandings of the roots of American attitudes about economic inequality, and contribute fresh insights on the obstacles that confront political efforts to mitigate inequality. This is a book I recommend highly to public opinion scholars for its theoretical insight and astute methodological blend. But it also deserves to be read widely by scholars interested in how political messages, policy proposals, and institutional reforms can undermine or encourage constructive responses to our economic divide." * Public Opinion Quarterly *Table of Contents1: The Politics of Social ComparisonPart I: Imagining the Economic Other 2: Inequality in the Social Mind 3: Revealing the Social Mind 4: The Disadvantaged Other 5: The Advantaged OtherPart II: Responding to the Economic Other 6: Social Comparison and Status Perceptions 7: Social Comparison and Support for RedistributionPart III: Insulated from Inequality 8: Why Americans Don’t Look Up 9: Why Americans Would Rather Look Down 10: How Looking Up Keeps Us Down 11: The Power of Social Comparison Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While, as the authors argue, to compare is human, a lot goes into which comparisons we make. Whether individuals engage in upward or downward comparison makes a huge difference in how they construct inequality in their minds and their political responses to this inequality. Condon and Wichowsky argue that which comparisons individuals choose to engage in, and which ones they are encouraged to make by the media and the political machinery determines how they react. Their ability to connect the dots between economic trends, social psychology, and politics of identity construction create an engaging book with tremendous salience for the present political moment." * Population and Development Review *"[The Economic Other] explores the central role of social comparison in the politics of inequality, focusing on ways that race and gender determine the nature and impact of cross-class comparisons. . . . [The book] investigates why Americans have not demanded more economic redistribution despite the substantial increases in income inequality. . . . [and] evaluates whether these reinforcing patterns regarding social comparison can be interrupted." * Journal of Economic Literature *“This book offers a wide range of insights and valuable causal inferences, serves as a methodological model that will likely be referenced in the future, and is sufficiently theoretically overabundant that scholars and students will likely be reading and building on it for many years to come.” * Perspectives on Politics *"Why are ordinary citizens so indifferent to socioeconomic inequality? Condon and Wichowsky offer a fresh, brilliant explanation to this central question of our time: the psychology of social comparison. Looking up at the privileged fosters awareness of inequality and support for ameliorating measures, but it is also uncomfortable and, therefore, rare. For emotional self-preservation, people would rather look down at the less fortunate, which undercuts mobilization around inequality. Engagingly written, theoretically sophisticated, and full of fascinating new data, this volume is a stand-out among the many books now examining inequality." -- Andrea Campbell, MIT"It is no longer deniable that social class matters in United States politics. Condon and Wichowsky lay open how it works for the thoughts and behaviors of members of the public. Their careful and lucid analyses show us that in this context of economic inequality, people are often comparing themselves to others whom they perceive to be faring better or worse and that these comparisons matter for our contemporary politics. This is a sophisticated take that maintains a focus on gender and race and treats economic distinctions as the social and political phenomena that they are." -- Katherine J. Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison"Rooted in social-psychological theory and a wealth of data from survey experiments, The Economic Other shines a bright light on a puzzling feature of our times: why soaring economic inequality has not produced a correspondingly strong demand for redistributive action. It shows that cross-class social comparisons importantly shape opinions about redistributive programs. Looking upward at high-income people encourages support for redistribution. But looking upward is uncomfortable and is discouraged by residential segregation, economic anxiety, and misleading media. Most Americans either avoid comparisons or look downward, reassuring themselves but blunting egalitarian impulses. Still, the authors offer some possible cures for this self-reinforcing dynamic of inequality." -- Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University"This is an important book, addressing an important set of questions, using innovative techniques to get answers. Condon and Wichowsky provide social scientists with a framework to understand the disconnect between rising inequality and support for redistribution. They provide progressive activists with a foundation to build more convincing messages. And on top of that, it is written in an engaging and accessible style." -- Nathan J. Kelly, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"In the last day, how many times have you compared yourself to someone else? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone: people compare themselves to others all the time, sometimes almost unconsciously. What’s remarkable is that these social comparisons are often the hidden drivers of how Americans form political attitudes about some of the paramount political issues of our time—issues like inequality, redistribution, and social policy. In this engaging and carefully-researched book, Condon and Wichowsky shine an overdue light on comparisons across social classes—that is, how Americans think about people richer and poorer than themselves—and the surprisingly powerful ways that these views structure our attitudes about inequality and economic policy. If you want to understand why Americans react to inequality in the (sometimes surprising) ways that they do, you need to read this book." -- Nicholas Carnes, Duke University“This book is like no other. It uses cutting-edge social science methods to explain how citizens think about themselves, others, and public policy. In so doing, it provides invaluable insight into the pressing contemporary issues of inequality and redistribution. Condon and Wichowsky will change the way scholars study public opinion formation and how we all think and talk about inequality.” -- James N. Druckman, Northwestern University"Some research in political psychology can seem like angels dancing on the head of a pin from the perspective of scholars focused on large political movements and big policy dilemmas—but not this book. The Economic Other uses elegant experimental and other techniques to explore two findings: how Americans compare themselves to others can increase their desire for greater social and economic equality, but how much they compare themselves to others can dampen that desire. Those are collective phenomena, not merely individual perversity. The combination is intellectually fascinating, politically infuriating, and morally disturbing—Condon and Wichowsky focus our attention on a dynamic that explains a lot of what is most troubling about American politics today." -- Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University"Scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics will value the book’s detailed examination of heterogeneity across races and genders." * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *"A timely and necessary piece of scholarship, this book contributes to a rich literature about inequality and the hesitancy to redistribute, opening up many possibilities for future research... This book should be required reading for not only academics, but anyone who wishes to better understand inequality in the United States." * Political Science Quarterly *"Condon and Wichowsky add a crucial social-psychological dimension to existing understandings of the roots of American attitudes about economic inequality, and contribute fresh insights on the obstacles that confront political efforts to mitigate inequality. This is a book I recommend highly to public opinion scholars for its theoretical insight and astute methodological blend. But it also deserves to be read widely by scholars interested in how political messages, policy proposals, and institutional reforms can undermine or encourage constructive responses to our economic divide." * Public Opinion Quarterly *Table of Contents1: The Politics of Social ComparisonPart I: Imagining the Economic Other 2: Inequality in the Social Mind 3: Revealing the Social Mind 4: The Disadvantaged Other 5: The Advantaged OtherPart II: Responding to the Economic Other 6: Social Comparison and Status Perceptions 7: Social Comparison and Support for RedistributionPart III: Insulated from Inequality 8: Why Americans Don’t Look Up 9: Why Americans Would Rather Look Down 10: How Looking Up Keeps Us Down 11: The Power of Social Comparison Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Downey challenges the ideas that schools are engines of inequality and that schools can be effectively transformed to substantially reduce inequality. Having completed some of the most influential recent work on the topic, he shows that most of the inequalities we observe are rooted in skills children do and do not possess on their very first day of school., and the evidence suggests that For the most part, schools keep differences from getting bigger. Schools can only get you part of the way If you want to have to a more equal opportunity structure for kids. If equality of opportunity is your goal, then you have to invest more heavily in solutions outside rather than inside of schools."--Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education equality and policy. How Schools Really Matter offers a much-needed corrective to the assumption that student achievement gaps are the product of woefully inadequate schools and teachers. Downey shows that schools compensate for out of school inequality much more than we give them credit for."--Janice Aurini, University of Waterloo "Downey's book takes on the widely held belief that our public schools are failing our neediest children, most especially children of low-income background. Critics on the left invoke underfunded schools, underqualified and undermotivated teachers, and hyper-segregation; for those on the right, and some on the left, it is the opening for charter schools and vouchers. Wrong, says Downey: our schools, on the whole, lift up poor children, not hold them back, implicating instead inequities experienced over the preschool years and in children's home lives outside of school. Read this important book with an open mind. It could very well change how you--how we all--think about schools and inequality." --Karl Alexander, co-editor of The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss "It's not often that a publication changes the way we think the world works. Communicated in remarkably clear prose, Downey's incisive empirically based analysis reveals that inequality increases significantly when children are out of, not while they are in, school. How School's Really Matter is an eye-opener, as well as a call to action--that is, a more focused endeavor to reduce the large disparities in children's social and physical environments, including those of their early childhood." --William Julius Wilson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Why We Shouldn’t Be Blaming Schools So Much Chapter 1: The Forgotten 87 Percent Herbert Walberg’s outrageous claim Trying to understand how schools matter when you have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla problem Chapter 2: Chickens, Eggs, and Achievement Gaps When do achievement gaps emerge? Scaling matters Why the early years are so important Relative deprivation matters too Conclusion Chapter 3: One Very Surprising Pattern about Schools Soccer coaches and schools Trying to understand how schools matter Seasonal comparisons What do we learn from the few studies that have collected data seasonally? Conclusion Chapter 4: And Now a Second, Even More Surprising Pattern School achievement, growth, and impact Objections Conclusion Part II: A New Way to Think about Schools and Inequality Chapter 5: More Like Reflectors than Generators Schools generating inequality Two examples of schools reflecting broader society What about those high-flying schools? Underestimating early childhood Conclusion: A diminished role for schools, an enhanced role for early childhood Chapter 6: As Helping More than Hurting Schools as compensatory: The weak form Schools as compensatory: The strong form Conclusion Chapter 7: A Frida Sofia Problem Schools and inequality: Stuck within the traditional framing Our value for limited government Fear of “blaming the victim” Gender and the vulnerability of schools Conclusion Chapter 8: The Costly Assumption Rich guys trying to reduce achievement gaps The never-ending quest to reform schools The great distractor So what should we do? Acknowledgments Appendix A: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Datasets (ECLS-K:1998 and ECLS-K:2010) Appendix B: Limitations of Seasonal Comparison Studies Appendix C: How Should Social Scientists Study Schools and Inequality? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Downey challenges the ideas that schools are engines of inequality and that schools can be effectively transformed to substantially reduce inequality. Having completed some of the most influential recent work on the topic, he shows that most of the inequalities we observe are rooted in skills children do and do not possess on their very first day of school., and the evidence suggests that For the most part, schools keep differences from getting bigger. Schools can only get you part of the way If you want to have to a more equal opportunity structure for kids. If equality of opportunity is your goal, then you have to invest more heavily in solutions outside rather than inside of schools."--Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education equality and policy. How Schools Really Matter offers a much-needed corrective to the assumption that student achievement gaps are the product of woefully inadequate schools and teachers. Downey shows that schools compensate for out of school inequality much more than we give them credit for."--Janice Aurini, University of Waterloo "Downey's book takes on the widely held belief that our public schools are failing our neediest children, most especially children of low-income background. Critics on the left invoke underfunded schools, underqualified and undermotivated teachers, and hyper-segregation; for those on the right, and some on the left, it is the opening for charter schools and vouchers. Wrong, says Downey: our schools, on the whole, lift up poor children, not hold them back, implicating instead inequities experienced over the preschool years and in children's home lives outside of school. Read this important book with an open mind. It could very well change how you--how we all--think about schools and inequality." --Karl Alexander, co-editor of The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss "It's not often that a publication changes the way we think the world works. Communicated in remarkably clear prose, Downey's incisive empirically based analysis reveals that inequality increases significantly when children are out of, not while they are in, school. How School's Really Matter is an eye-opener, as well as a call to action--that is, a more focused endeavor to reduce the large disparities in children's social and physical environments, including those of their early childhood." --William Julius Wilson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Why We Shouldn’t Be Blaming Schools So Much Chapter 1: The Forgotten 87 Percent Herbert Walberg’s outrageous claim Trying to understand how schools matter when you have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla problem Chapter 2: Chickens, Eggs, and Achievement Gaps When do achievement gaps emerge? Scaling matters Why the early years are so important Relative deprivation matters too Conclusion Chapter 3: One Very Surprising Pattern about Schools Soccer coaches and schools Trying to understand how schools matter Seasonal comparisons What do we learn from the few studies that have collected data seasonally? Conclusion Chapter 4: And Now a Second, Even More Surprising Pattern School achievement, growth, and impact Objections Conclusion Part II: A New Way to Think about Schools and Inequality Chapter 5: More Like Reflectors than Generators Schools generating inequality Two examples of schools reflecting broader society What about those high-flying schools? Underestimating early childhood Conclusion: A diminished role for schools, an enhanced role for early childhood Chapter 6: As Helping More than Hurting Schools as compensatory: The weak form Schools as compensatory: The strong form Conclusion Chapter 7: A Frida Sofia Problem Schools and inequality: Stuck within the traditional framing Our value for limited government Fear of “blaming the victim” Gender and the vulnerability of schools Conclusion Chapter 8: The Costly Assumption Rich guys trying to reduce achievement gaps The never-ending quest to reform schools The great distractor So what should we do? Acknowledgments Appendix A: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Datasets (ECLS-K:1998 and ECLS-K:2010) Appendix B: Limitations of Seasonal Comparison Studies Appendix C: How Should Social Scientists Study Schools and Inequality? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing detailed economic analysis of the effects of sticker price, tuition discounts, merit and need-based financial aid, and institutional competition, Levine contends that the overall impact from these multiple factors is to limit access to higher education for lower-income students. He takes specific aim at the problem of opaque financial aid and how it serves to heighten inequities in higher education. And he offers an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of two major policies for improving access to college—the various versions of 'free college' and a significant increase (read: doubling) of Pell Grants." * Forbes *"A Problem of Fit [examines] the pricing system in American higher education, exploring the market factors that contribute to its problems....Levine [addresses] barriers to higher education beyond those directly related to pricing, such as excessive levels of student loans, the complexity of the college application process, and difficulties in understanding financial aid award letters." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Levine’s text is a quick and engaging read that we highly recommend. In each chapter, he does a fantastic job of identifying what matters for an audience’s understanding of these complex, interrelated issues and communicates them in a way that is approachable and allows readers to connect the pieces of this big puzzle. Levine’s text captures a high level of nuance that escapes most of the public and many policymakers. As such, this should be a required reading for higher education finance courses and new legislator orientations alike." * Teachers College Record *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader." * Monthly Labor Review (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader. I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with college pricing, as well as to people interested in learning more about the higher education market." * Monthly Labor Review *"If you want to understand the nuances of college affordability, pricing, and finance, this book is for you. Levine has taken an issue that impacts the majority of families going through the college search process and deconstructed its complexity. Whether you are a student, policy maker, or higher education practitioner, this is an important read." -- Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling"Levine combines accessible economic explanations with cogent policy recommendations to frame the challenges facing students and families navigating the complex world of college financing. His forceful critique focuses on analysis and solutions rather than anger and blame, forwarding ideas about targeted new funding and improved communication with the potential to help students enroll at the institutions that will be the best fit for them." -- Sandy Baum, Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Institution of Financial Aid Chapter 2: An Econ 101 View of College Pricing and Financial Aid Chapter 3: The Real Cost of College and Its Worth Chapter 4: Pricing Transparency Chapter 5: Addressing Affordability Chapter 6: Fixing the Pricing System in Higher Education Chapter 7: Other Barriers to College Access Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisA look at the networks of the hidden lives of the internally displacedTrade Review'One of the first extensive studies that brings together information on the methods and networks that individuals and communities have evolved for coping in such situations. Provides a rich, descriptive account' -- International PeacekeepingTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction and Background 1. Africa Angola: 'Deslocados' in the Province of Huambo Burundi: Developing Strategies for Self-Reliance, A Study of Displacement in Four Provinces Sudan: The Unique Challenges of Displacement in Khartoum Uganda: The Resilience of Tradition, Displaced Acholi in Kitgum 2. Asia Afghanistan: Displaced in a Devastated Country Burma: Displaced Karens, Like Water on Khu Leaf Sri Lanka: Developing New Livelihoods in the Shadow of War, Displaced, Relocated and Resettled Muslims 3. Latin America Colombia: Creating Peace Amid the Violence, The Church, NGOs and the Displaced 4. Europe Georgia: Coping by Organizing, Displaced Georgians from Abkhazia Yugoslavia: Displacement from Kosovo, From Patronage to Self-Help Conclusion Contributors Bibliography Burundi Annexes Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in a world with too many graduates fighting for too few graduate jobs; where Deliveroo drivers have PhDs. What’s the point in a university education in a world without enough jobs? Roth writes a sharp critique of the utility of a degree and the functioning of higher education, drawing on his experience as a higher education administrator.Trade Review'Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.' -- Steve Fraser, author of 'Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion''A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and what the reality actually is. Cuts through the cloudiness of our long-held illusions.' -- Alfred Lubrano, author of 'Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Higher Education and Class 2. The Overproduction of Intelligence 3. Class in Transition: Historical Background 4. Underemployment Through the Decades 5. The Educated Underclass 6. Into the Future Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of original research from the leading scholars in sociology and economics studying mobility and inequality. The volume brings together the state-of-the-art in the field and sets the agenda for future research.Trade Review"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality."—George Farkas, University of California, Irvine"Mobility and Inequality delivers on its promise to integrate sociological and economic approaches to inequality. Leading scholars assess the past and set the future agenda for mobility research."—Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley"In Mobility and Inequality, some of the very best scholars in economics and sociology bring the intergenerational mobility literature forward in ways that conventional journal articles generally are unable to do. By blending these approaches to mobility research, the book brings the two academic fields closer to each other than I ever have seen before."—Anders Björklund, Stockholm University

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of original research from the leading scholars in sociology and economics studying mobility and inequality. The volume brings together the state-of-the-art in the field and sets the agenda for future research.Trade Review"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality."—George Farkas, University of California, Irvine"Mobility and Inequality delivers on its promise to integrate sociological and economic approaches to inequality. Leading scholars assess the past and set the future agenda for mobility research."—Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley"In Mobility and Inequality, some of the very best scholars in economics and sociology bring the intergenerational mobility literature forward in ways that conventional journal articles generally are unable to do. By blending these approaches to mobility research, the book brings the two academic fields closer to each other than I ever have seen before."—Anders Björklund, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsContents @toc4:List of Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii @toc1:I. Overview @toc2:1. Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility 000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan @toc1:II. How Much Mobility? @toc2:2. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? 000 @tocca:Christopher S. Jencks and Laura Tach @toc2:3. How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved? 000 @tocca:Valentino Dardanoni, Gary S. Fields, John Roemer, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta @toc1:III. Mobility Between What? @toc2:4. Does the Sociological Approach to Studying Social Mobility Have a Future? 000 @tocca:David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden @toc2:5. The Economic Basis of Social Class 000 @tocca:John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight @toc2:6. Mobility: What? When? How? 000 @tocca:Andrew Abbott @toc1:IV. Mechanisms of Mobility: Education and the Process of Intergenerational Mobility @toc2:7. Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States 000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim @toc2:8. Family Attainment Norms and Educational Stratification in the United States and Taiwan: The Effects of Parents' School Transitions 000 @tocca:Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang @toc2:9. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making 000 @tocca:Richard Breen and Meir Yaish @toc2:10. Mental Ability--Uni or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects 000 @tocca:David Epstein and Christopher Winship @toc2:11. Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility 000 @tocca:Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro @toc1:V. Contexts of Mobility: Income Dynamics and Vulnerability to Poverty @toc2:12. Estimating Individual Vulnerability to Poverty with Pseudo-Panel Data 000 @tocca:Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim @toc2:13. Happiness Pays: An Analysis of Well Being, Income, and Health Based on Russian Panel Data 000 @tocca:Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar @toc2:14. The Panel-of-Countries Approach to Explaining Income Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda 000 @tocca:Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini Index 000

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Book SynopsisIn light of the ongoing struggle faced by migrants and refugees trying to access healthcare, this thought-provoking book tackles key issues at the intersection of mobility and health. It critically engages with the bureaucratic, economic and cultural barriers faced by these groups, arguing that a sedentary bias persists in national health systems.

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Book SynopsisThe European Union is founded on the idea of free movement. A generation of West European citizens - referred to by the author as 'Eurostars' - have pioneered a new kind of highly skilled and educated migration.Trade Review"The book is well written and holds ones attention in the analysis as well as the firsthand accounts." (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 September 2011) "Self-consciously and by design not a conventional social science product, Favell's book propels the reader much as a novel would into the private lives of 60 'pioneers of European integration,' educated and highly skilled trailblazers representing the 'small but symbolically powerful population' who have voluntarily left their 'nation-state society' to reap the rewards of denizenship in a big, rich Eurocity in northwest Europe." (American Journal of Sociology, September 2009) "Favell analyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration." (European Urban Knowledge Network Research & Practice Review, February 2009) "In his new book, sociologist Adrian Favell challenges the belief that 'Eurostars' or high-flying expat Europeans, can live successfully anywhere in the EU." (Time Out Amsterdam, January 2009)Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface. Preface. 1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTÉ. A Management Consultant’s Tale. 2. NEW AMSTERDAM. A Logistics Manager’s Tale. 3. LONDON CALLS. A Data Analyst’s Tale. 4. BRUSSELS-BRUSSEL-BRUXELLES. An Architect’s Tale. 5. MIGRATION. An Estate Agent’s Tale. 6. MOBILITY (1). A Social Worker’s Tale. 7. MOBILITY (2). A Landlady’s Tale. 8. SETTLEMENT. A Businessman’s Tale. 9. INTEGRATION (1). A Graphic Designer’s Tale. 10. INTEGRATION (2). A Media Manager’s Tale. 11. LONDON LOVES. A City Broker’s Tale. 12. OLD AMSTERDAM. A Journalist’s Tale. 13. ANOMIE. An IT Consultant’s Tale. 14. EUROPA. Postface. Appendix 1: Summary of interviews. Appendix 2: A note on methodology. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index of interviewees. Index

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Book SynopsisContaining Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“In addition to both its new arguments and impressive synthesis of existing literature that will appeal to both new and senior scholars, it is easy to envision how this volume will be an excellent teaching resource for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. Containing Diversity would work well as a core text addressing the politics or sociology of migration in Canada whose chapters each address a core theme, or as an assigned book for students to review and contend with its framework.” -- John Carlaw, Toronto Metropolitan University * Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies *"One of the most exciting contributions to the immigration literature in the last few years, Containing Diversity is a valuable resource not only for migration scholars, but also for policy analysts, as well as immigrants themselves who wish to learn about Canadian immigration policies." -- Deniz Cevik * École nationale d’administration publique, International Journal *“Containing Diversity makes what is often invisible, visible, shedding new and substantial light on the struggles of im/migrant groups who are at once essential to national economies, yet multiply marginalized on intersecting grounds of oppression.” -- Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Saint Mary’s University * Canadian Ethnic Studies *“With Containing Diversity, Abu-Laban, Tungohan, and Gabriel not only offer a convincing and disconcerting appraisal of the politics that shape 21st century immigration policy in Canada, but also a carefully articulated ethical path forward – one that supports a politics of social and global justice” -- J. Adam Perry, St. Francis Xavier University * Canadian Ethnic Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1. Mapping Containing Diversity 2. Contextualizing Containing Diversity: Historic and Contemporary Policies Part II 3. Controlling “Global Citizens”: Refugees, International Obligations, and Security 4. Seeking Citizens: “Skilled” Immigrants as Ideal Neoliberal Citizens 5. Making Non-citizens: Temporary Workers and the Production of Precarity 6. Family Migrants as “Undesirable”? Sponsoring New Citizens amid New Restrictions on Family Immigration Policy Part III 7. Redefining Membership and Belonging: Contestations over Citizenship and Multiculturalism 8. Toward a Politics of Social and Global Justice Conclusion and Future Directions Select Podcast and Documentary Suggestions about Canada

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Book SynopsisContaining Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“In addition to both its new arguments and impressive synthesis of existing literature that will appeal to both new and senior scholars, it is easy to envision how this volume will be an excellent teaching resource for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. Containing Diversity would work well as a core text addressing the politics or sociology of migration in Canada whose chapters each address a core theme, or as an assigned book for students to review and contend with its framework.” -- John Carlaw, Toronto Metropolitan University * Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies *“One of the most exciting contributions to the immigration literature in the last few years, Containing Diversity is a valuable resource not only for migration scholars, but also for policy analysts, as well as immigrants themselves who wish to learn about Canadian immigration policies.” -- Deniz Cevik * École nationale d’administration publique, International Journal *“Containing Diversity makes what is often invisible, visible, shedding new and substantial light on the struggles of im/migrant groups who are at once essential to national economies, yet multiply marginalized on intersecting grounds of oppression.” -- Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Saint Mary’s University * Canadian Ethnic Studies *“With Containing Diversity, Abu-Laban, Tungohan, and Gabriel not only offer a convincing and disconcerting appraisal of the politics that shape 21st century immigration policy in Canada, but also a carefully articulated ethical path forward – one that supports a politics of social and global justice” -- J. Adam Perry, St. Francis Xavier University * Canadian Ethnic Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1. Mapping Containing Diversity 2. Contextualizing Containing Diversity: Historic and Contemporary Policies Part II 3. Controlling “Global Citizens”: Refugees, International Obligations, and Security 4. Seeking Citizens: “Skilled” Immigrants as Ideal Neoliberal Citizens 5. Making Non-citizens: Temporary Workers and the Production of Precarity 6. Family Migrants as “Undesirable”? Sponsoring New Citizens amid New Restrictions on Family Immigration Policy Part III 7. Redefining Membership and Belonging: Contestations over Citizenship and Multiculturalism 8. Toward a Politics of Social and Global Justice Conclusion and Future Directions Select Podcast and Documentary Suggestions about Canada

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Book SynopsisThe book is the only book-length treatment of New Labour's approach to child poverty, and examines initiatives such as Sure Start, the influence of research on inter-generational continuities, and its new stance on social exclusion.Trade Review"This book places the academic debates around transmitted deprivation into a clear and chronological framework... His use of historical sources combined with interviews with those involved gives a depth to the book that draws the reader in." Vanessa Beck, Journal of Social Policy"Welshman's book is a fascinating account of a hitherto largely neglected topic and the author is to be commended for the breadth of his investigation and the relevance of the lessons he draws from it from today." Nick Axford, British Journal of Social Work"John Welshman has produced an admirable book which can fruitfully be engaged with by historians concerned with all aspects of welfare and well-being over the past century and longer." John Stewart, Social History of Medicine"The book is a thorough and fascinating study of the history of poverty and policy from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first....Enormously valuable to a range of potential readers..." Tanya Evans, Twentieth Century British HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: The cycle hypothesis: Sir Keith Joseph and the cycle speech; From problem families to the cycle of deprivation; Part Two: The Transmitted Deprivation Research Programme: Conceptual difficulties: setting up the Research Programme; From a cycle of deprivation to cycles of disadvantage; The final years of the Research Programme, Poverty, structure, and behaviour: three social scientists; Part Three: New Labour and the cycle of deprivation: The broader context: social exclusion, poverty dynamics, and the revival of agency; From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisGeoff Payne considers a wide range of dimensions of mobility and life chances to assess the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes and challenges well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public.Trade Review"Punctures the technocratic myth of UK academics and politicians working together, identifying instead a troubling disconnect between what’s known about mobility and what’s done in the name of increasing it. An object lesson in late-industrial policymaking." David G. Grusky, Stanford University"A valuable navigation tool of thought for the exploration of mobility" - Sociological Research Online"Every public figure protests they are all for social mobility - but few have any idea what it means. Here's the definitive analysis they need to read: equal opportunity means we must live more equal lives." Polly Toynbee, The Guardian"A lively, intelligent, and well-informed discussion of the meaning, extent, and significance of social mobility in Britain. Written for both specialists and policymakers, it will be an essential source of reference for decades to come." John Scott, University of EssexTable of ContentsIntroducing the Confusing World of Social Mobility; ‘There’s a Lot of it About’; Log Cabins and Field-Marshals’ Batons; The Political Re-discovery of Social Mobility; Documenting Mobility; Tracing the Origins; Why low, why now?; The Pessimism of Older Academic Mobility Analysis; The Emergence of a New Society; The New Mobility Regime; Misconceptions of Schooling and Meritocracy; Tightening Bonds and Professional Access; Moving On; References; Tables and Figures.

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Book SynopsisGeoff Payne considers a wide range of dimensions of mobility and life chances to assess the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes and challenges well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public.Trade Review"Punctures the technocratic myth of UK academics and politicians working together, identifying instead a troubling disconnect between what’s known about mobility and what’s done in the name of increasing it. An object lesson in late-industrial policymaking." David G. Grusky, Stanford University"A valuable navigation tool of thought for the exploration of mobility" - Sociological Research Online"Every public figure protests they are all for social mobility - but few have any idea what it means. Here's the definitive analysis they need to read: equal opportunity means we must live more equal lives." Polly Toynbee, The Guardian"A lively, intelligent, and well-informed discussion of the meaning, extent, and significance of social mobility in Britain. Written for both specialists and policymakers, it will be an essential source of reference for decades to come." John Scott, University of EssexTable of ContentsIntroducing the Confusing World of Social Mobility; ‘There’s a Lot of it About’; Log Cabins and Field-Marshals’ Batons; The Political Re-discovery of Social Mobility; Documenting Mobility; Tracing the Origins; Why low, why now?; The Pessimism of Older Academic Mobility Analysis; The Emergence of a New Society; The New Mobility Regime; Misconceptions of Schooling and Meritocracy; Tightening Bonds and Professional Access; Moving On; References; Tables and Figures.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides an alternative vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how the term 'social mobility' structures what success means and the impact that has on society. It recasts the relationship with employers and covers progress in non-work areas of life.Trade Review"A useful and thought-provoking contribution to current debates on the notion of success that is engaging and accessible." Sheila Riddell, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction; Why we need a new theory of social mobility; Rising, Falling or staying the same? The academic discourse on social mobility; Unpicking the political consensus on social mobility; Breaking the Attainment Addiction; Unbundling, diversification and ecological: New models for Higher Education; Hourglass, molecule or pyramid? Social mobility and the labour market; Social Mobility, well-being and class; A new politics for social mobility; Conclusions: Re-framing social mobility.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides an alternative vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how the term ‘social mobility’ structures what success means and the impact that has on society. It recasts the relationship with employers and covers progress in non-work areas of life.Trade Review"A useful and thought-provoking contribution to current debates on the notion of success that is engaging and accessible." Sheila Riddell, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction; Why we need a new theory of social mobility; Rising, Falling or staying the same? The academic discourse on social mobility; Unpicking the political consensus on social mobility; Breaking the Attainment Addiction; Unbundling, diversification and ecological: New models for Higher Education; Hourglass, molecule or pyramid? Social mobility and the labour market; Social Mobility, well-being and class; A new politics for social mobility; Conclusions: Re-framing social mobility.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the theory and practice of justice in and of the city through a multi-disciplinary collaboration, which draws on a wide range of expertise. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and students across a range of disciplines including urban and environmental studies.Trade Review“For those interested in being able to discuss the just city with conceptual clarity in a globalized and urbanized world, this collection is essential reading.” Mark Davidson, Clark University, USATable of ContentsUnderstanding justice and fairness in and of the city ~ Derek Bell and Simin Davoudi; Section One: Local environmental justice; Urban greenspace and environmental justice claims ~ Simin Davoudi and Elizabeth Brooks; The school in the city ~ Pamela Woolner; Transport poverty and urban mobility ~ Roberto Palacin, Geoff Vigar and Sean Peacock; Food justice and the city ~ Jane Midgley and Helen Coulson; Section Two: Spatial justice and the right to the city; Fit and miss-fit: the global spread of urban spatial injustice ~ Suzanne Speak and Ashok Kumar; Toonsformation: skateboarders' renegotiation of city rights ~ Lee Pugalis, Jon Swords, Michael Jeffries and Bob Giddings; Young people and their everyday experience of the city ~ Teresa Strachan and Elisa Lopez-Capel; Section Three: Participation, procedural fairness and local decision making; Public perceptions of unfairness in urban planning ~ Neil Stanley; The importance of the past: cultural legacy and making fairness real ~ David Webb; Section Four: Social justice and life course; Fair shares for all: the challenge of demographic change ~ Rose Gilroy and Elizabeth Brooks; Educating urban youth: fair or foul? ~ Karen Laing, Laura Mazzoli Smith and Liz Todd; Fairness in Newcastle: theory and practice ~ Jan Deckers; A fairer city: towards a pluralistic, relational and multi-scalar perspective ~ Derek Bell and Simin Davoudi.

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