Understanding Social Inequality

Chapter 1: Introduction/Chapter 2: Modernity Postmodernity and Globalization/The end of certainty/The Enlightenment 'project' modernity and postmodernity/Globalization/Models of globalization/Globalization and migration/Chapter 3: The Collar Line and Urban Boundaries/Collars and classes/Work and stratification in post-war Britain/Class theory in British post-war sociology/The Marxist response to sociology/Urban boundaries/Chapter 4: The Aftermath of Affluence/Dual labour markets/Marxism and the labour process/Restructuring and the collapse of work/The new space economy/Emerging spatial divisions of labour and capitalist transformations/Whatever happened to the collar line?/Chapter 5: New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour/World cities/Los Angeles and the 'LA School'/Social polarization/Gentrification and the urban-seeking middle classes/The ghetto and the urban underclass/Methodology and urban social polarization/Chapter 6: Poverty Social Exclusion and the Welfare State/Welfare state regimes/Poverty and social exclusion/Poverty in the United States/Poverty and social exclusion in Britain/Poverty and social exclusion in Europe/Towards a liberal welfare convergence?/Chapter 7: New Work and New Workers/New work/Fast food workers - flipping burgers in the globally branded restaurant/Call centres - taking calls in the interactive service factory/Paid domestic workers - caring and cleaning in global cities/Cash-in-hand jobs - informal work in marginal localities/Young people - working and playing in a restructured region/Chapter 8: Class Identity/Class interests/From class consciousness to class identity/The French connection - Bourdieu/Debating class identity/Identity and organization