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"A geographer maps the injustices of Selfish Capitalism with scholarly detachment." --Oliver James, author of 'Affluenza'
"Beliefs which serve privilege, elitism and inequality, infect our minds like computer viruses. But now Dorling provides the brain-cleaning software we need to begin creating a happier society. " --Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology and author of "The Spirit Level"
"For injustice to flourish, inequality must appear as natural, normal, innate, and inevitable. Danny Dorling, in this impassioned, empirical, and hopeful book, skewers ideologies that justify injustice -- and reminds us that a necessary step towards creating a better world is collectively imagining it is possible." --Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health
"Beliefs which serve privilege, elitism and inequality, infect our minds like computer viruses. But now Dorling provides the brain-cleaning software we need to begin creating a happier society. " --Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology and author of "The Spirit Level"
"For injustice to flourish, inequality must appear as natural, normal, innate, and inevitable. Danny Dorling, in this impassioned, empirical, and hopeful book, skewers ideologies that justify injustice -- and reminds us that a necessary step towards creating a better world is collectively imagining it is possible." --Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health
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Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? Leading social commentator and academic Danny Dorling claims in this timely book that, as the five social evils identified by Beveridge are gradually being eradicated, they are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice, viz: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good; and despair is inevitable. In an informal yet authoritative style, Dorling examines who is most harmed by these injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit. Hard-hitting and uncompromising in its call to action, this is essential reading for everyone concerned with social justice.
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44 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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Danny Dorling, a professor of human geography at Sheffield University has written a well-researched and hard-hitting book indicting both New Labour and the Conservative Party for the Victorian levels of social inequality existent in Britain today.
Dorling argues convincingly that the growing gap between rich and poor is caused by elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair. 'Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists' should be compulsory reading for all those politicians advocating draconian cuts in public spending and deserves to be as widely read as another recent important book on inequality, 'The Spirit Level'(see my review).
Dorling argues convincingly that the growing gap between rich and poor is caused by elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair. 'Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists' should be compulsory reading for all those politicians advocating draconian cuts in public spending and deserves to be as widely read as another recent important book on inequality, 'The Spirit Level'(see my review).
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Let me say one thing straight away. It is brilliant that this book exists. That Daniel Dorling has meticulously researched and taken the time to collate all the facts and figures into a dense but readable narrative that so confidently and precisely skewers the notion that we have all found our natural place in the order of things due to ability, ambition and work ethic. Yes this book does a great job at that .
You sense a however coming and you are correct. Before I come to the however , I feel i must add a caveat. The way that I see it the people who really need to read this book. The rich , the powerful , the policy and decision makers are never going to read a book like this. This is a book that is going to be read , mostly , by those who morally and politically sensitive to the needs of the others. In other words this is a book that is going to preach to the converted.
Injustice is a coruscating and sweeping evaluation of British politics that bluntly dismisses a plethora of supposedly progressive policies as ineffective and distractions from what he says are the real trends undermining the wellbeing of individuals, communities and the country at large.
He identifies five sets of beliefs - elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair - that he claims are replacing Beveridge's five social evils, created at the dawn of the welfare state (ignorance, want, idleness, squalor and disease), and have become so entrenched in Britain and some other affluent countries that they uphold an unjust system that perpetuates extreme inequality. Dorling argues powerfully that politicians in Britain and the other most unequal rich countries ( he found only the US, Portugal and Singapore out of the 25 affluent states he analysed to be more unequal than Britain ) have accepted and propagated the detrimental idea that inequality is "unfortunate" but inevitable, rather than seeing it, first and foremost, as unjust.
There is much more detail and depth to Injustice than that and it would frankly take pages and pages of text to do it justice ( no pun intended ). In one sense this means that through the sheer relentless density of the text and the proliferation of charts & graphs Injustice is difficult to read with any great intensity in one sitting . It is a book to be digested in small edifying chunks.
This is an immeasurably important book, a source of data with which to support the argument that we have to pay meticulous attention to inequality if we are to tackle social injustice, and, as such, highly recommended. My earlier rather downbeat assessment of who will read this book should not be taken too literally, though i still stsand firmly by the point . The more people who read this book the better, from wherever. As this quote proves I suppose. "Given this, our power and way forward has to be in joining together, making alliances, making everyone's voice heard: 'we realise that, although none of us is superhuman, neither are any of us without significance.'
You sense a however coming and you are correct. Before I come to the however , I feel i must add a caveat. The way that I see it the people who really need to read this book. The rich , the powerful , the policy and decision makers are never going to read a book like this. This is a book that is going to be read , mostly , by those who morally and politically sensitive to the needs of the others. In other words this is a book that is going to preach to the converted.
Injustice is a coruscating and sweeping evaluation of British politics that bluntly dismisses a plethora of supposedly progressive policies as ineffective and distractions from what he says are the real trends undermining the wellbeing of individuals, communities and the country at large.
He identifies five sets of beliefs - elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair - that he claims are replacing Beveridge's five social evils, created at the dawn of the welfare state (ignorance, want, idleness, squalor and disease), and have become so entrenched in Britain and some other affluent countries that they uphold an unjust system that perpetuates extreme inequality. Dorling argues powerfully that politicians in Britain and the other most unequal rich countries ( he found only the US, Portugal and Singapore out of the 25 affluent states he analysed to be more unequal than Britain ) have accepted and propagated the detrimental idea that inequality is "unfortunate" but inevitable, rather than seeing it, first and foremost, as unjust.
There is much more detail and depth to Injustice than that and it would frankly take pages and pages of text to do it justice ( no pun intended ). In one sense this means that through the sheer relentless density of the text and the proliferation of charts & graphs Injustice is difficult to read with any great intensity in one sitting . It is a book to be digested in small edifying chunks.
This is an immeasurably important book, a source of data with which to support the argument that we have to pay meticulous attention to inequality if we are to tackle social injustice, and, as such, highly recommended. My earlier rather downbeat assessment of who will read this book should not be taken too literally, though i still stsand firmly by the point . The more people who read this book the better, from wherever. As this quote proves I suppose. "Given this, our power and way forward has to be in joining together, making alliances, making everyone's voice heard: 'we realise that, although none of us is superhuman, neither are any of us without significance.'
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Social injustice is increasing. In an affluent society (even in recession, we are still relatively affluent)with all the historical and political knowledge available to us, still the gap between rich and poor grows, still the educational gap is immense, still, despite all the rhetoric, unfairness is endemic. Why can't we fix it? Is it just malice? Class prejudice? Or something else?
In this fascinating,indispensable book, Dorling offers some ideas...that maybe we're asking the wrong questions, and trying to deal with the wrong evils...
He replaces the old social evils identified by Beveridge (ignorance, want, idleness, squalor, disease) with some new social evils (elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair) and proceeds to build a case which suggests that inequality has become entrenched in our society and unless we challenge the assumptions on which our society is founded, then injustice will not only be with us, but will continue to grow.
As a non-fan of Blair and his cronies, I could weep for the heart of this country at the way Cameron and Clegg have managed to use a recession to justify increasing inequalities in education, pay, pensions, housing, health... they really need to read this book!
And so do you!
Even if you disagree with his conclusions, his passion and commitment shine from these pages. It's a book of the head and the heart. And a book for our times. Read Dickens, then Dorling!
In this fascinating,indispensable book, Dorling offers some ideas...that maybe we're asking the wrong questions, and trying to deal with the wrong evils...
He replaces the old social evils identified by Beveridge (ignorance, want, idleness, squalor, disease) with some new social evils (elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair) and proceeds to build a case which suggests that inequality has become entrenched in our society and unless we challenge the assumptions on which our society is founded, then injustice will not only be with us, but will continue to grow.
As a non-fan of Blair and his cronies, I could weep for the heart of this country at the way Cameron and Clegg have managed to use a recession to justify increasing inequalities in education, pay, pensions, housing, health... they really need to read this book!
And so do you!
Even if you disagree with his conclusions, his passion and commitment shine from these pages. It's a book of the head and the heart. And a book for our times. Read Dickens, then Dorling!
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