Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Sources of extracts vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Inequality and poverty
8. Prime suspect: murder in Britain 13
9. The dream that turned pear-shaped 31
10. The soul searching within New Labour 41
11. Unequal Britain 49
12. Axing the child poverty measure is wrong 57
13. Injustice and ideology
14. Brutal budget to entrench inequality 63
15. New Labour and inequality: Thatcherism continued? 65
16. All in the mind? Why social inequalities persist 83
17. Glass conflict: David Cameron’s claim to understand poverty 93
18. Clearing the poor away 97
19. Race and identity
20. Ghettos in the sky 103
21. Worlds apart: how inequality breeds fear and prejudice in Britain 111
22. How much evidence do you need? Ethnicity, harm and crime 115
23. UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex 121
24. Race and the repercussions of recession 125
25. Education and hierarchy
26. What’s it to do with the price of fish? 133
27. Little progress towards a fairer education system 139
28. One of Labour’s great successes 147
29. Do three points make a trend? 149
30. Educational mobility, England and Germany 155
31. Cash and the not so classless society 159
32. Britain must close the great pay divide 165
33. Raising equality in access to higher education 170
34. Elitism and geneticism
35. The Darwins and the Cecils are only empty vessels 189
36. The Fabian essay: the myth of inherited inequality 193
37. The return to elitism in education 199
38. The super-rich are still soaring away 209
39. Mobility and employment
40. The trouble with moving upmarket 217
41. Britain – split and divided by inequality 221
42. London and the English desert: the grain of truth in a stereotype 225
43. Are the times changing back? 237
44. Unemployment and health 243
45. Bricks and mortar
46. Mortality amongst street sleeping youth in the UK 249
47. Daylight robbery: there’s no shortage of housing 251
48. The influence of selective migration patterns 255
49. The geography of poverty, inequality and wealth in the UK and abroad 263
50. All connected? Geographies of race, death, wealth, votes and births 291
51. Well-being and misery
52. Against the organization of misery? The Marmot Review of Health Inequalities 299
53. Inequality kills 307
54. The geography of social inequality and health 311
55. The cartographer’s mad project 327
56. The fading of the dream: widening inequalities in life expectancy in America 333
57. The importance of circumstance 339
58. Advocacy and action
59. Mean machine: how structural inequality makes social inequality seem natural 347
60. Policing the borders of crime: who decides research? 351
61. Learning the hard way 357
62. When the social divide deepens 363
63. Ending the scandal of complacency 365
64. Our grandchildren will wonder why we were addicted to social inequality 369
65. Mind the gap: New Labour’s legacy on child poverty 373
66. Remapping the world’s population: visualizing data using cartograms 379
67. If I were king 385
68. Bibliography 387
69. Index 389